The hidden rule behind all evolution | with biologist Anjali Goswami

Why do cats look almost exactly the same as they did millions of years ago, while dogs have exploded into hundreds of wildly different shapes? Why are birds (the most diverse living dinosaurs) actually the slowest evolving dinosaurs of all? And why do the same body shapes keep evolving again and again, in completely unrelated animals, on opposite sides of the planet? Evolutionary biologist Anjali Goswami has spent her career trying to answer one enormous question: why does life look the way it d...

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