The Wonders of Camouflage: "Natural selection has favored those ancestral animals that resembled their background, and in some cases, the resemblance is uncannily exact. It's really remarkable."

The Role of Genes in Predicting the Future: "Genes are predicting the future because they will not survive unless they get the prediction right, and all sensible prediction in the real world is based on the past."

Viral Phenotypes: "The extended phenotype is those parts of the phenotype which are not part of the body in which the genes sit."

The Cuckoo's Victory: "It's astonishing fact that a baby cuckoo may be fed by a tiny, tiny wren, which it could swallow it whole, but the wren is working itself to the bone, dropping food into the cuckoo's great gape."

The Cooperative Gene Hypothesis: "The reason why the genes within one species gene pool, such as the human gene pool, work together cooperatively to build bodies altogether as a cooperative unit is simply that they have the same expectation of getting into the future."

The Cooperation of Genes and Mitochondria: "The way a gene becomes the way genes become cooperative is by sharing the same expectation of the future."

The Origin of Birdsong: "Before it's singing properly, it teaches itself to sing. In American bang sparrows, for example, they begin by, singing for random fragments of of song, which is not really proper song at all, and they learn to sing by whichever fragments of trial and error song fit in with a built in template."

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"And females come to the bower. They're attracted by the bower. It's better than a peacock tail in one way because although it looks like it's similar to a peacock's tail, the the the bird itself the male bird itself is not made vulnerable by it because it's not part of its body."

The Importance of Embodiment in Cognitive Function: "In order to do really clever stuff like like, doing what Einstein did or doing what Darwin did, you don't need a body. You just need a brains, and and you just need the well, the the function equivalent of a of a brain, which I think I'm committed to the view must be possible in electronics."

The Role of Pain: "What's puzzling is that it has to be so damn painful. Why couldn't it just be a flipping a switch in the brains, and and this just simply flip because it don't do that again, raising a little red flag, and the animal doesn't do it again."