Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test: How Behavior Evolves and Why It Matters

Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

For centuries, people have been returning to the same tired nature-versus-nurture debate, trying to determine what we learn and what we inherit. In Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test, biologist Marlene Zuk goes beyond the binary and instead focuses on interaction, or the way that genes and...