UnDisciplined: How does mutualism drive ecologies under climate change?

10/10/2024 25 min

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Episode Synopsis

For a very long time it was assumed that competition and predation drove evolution and ecologies. And it’s true that antagonism plays a role. But so does mutualism — species benefiting one another without cost or consequence. And biologist Jenn Rudgers says that we should keep that in mind as we face a world that is being stressed by climate change.