Can we have your liver? The 286th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

Natural Sciences, Society & Culture, News, Adaptation, Modernity, Culture, Politics, Science, Evolutionary Biology

4.6 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Today we discuss organ donation, and parenting in the animal world. Organ donation: how can we modify incentives so that people who need organs have a good chance of getting them, but people with healthy organs are never sent to an early death because their organs are valuable? Then: a natural history primer on parental care and feeding ecology of some local mammals and birds. What can be learned from observing the successful parenting of both barn swallows and red foxes? ***** Our sponsors...

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast live stream number 286.
0:10.1	I actually forgot.
0:11.4	Oh, okay.
0:12.0	I think it's 286.
0:13.6	You know, you can sort of take it as a sort of, it's a 286 style episode.
0:18.2	If that's, that's the actual number.
0:19.6	Great.
0:20.4	I'm Dr. Brett Weinstein. We were so ready.
0:23.0	We were ready. But then we forgot the most basic things. Yes. I am still Dr. Brett Weinstein.
0:29.2	You were still Dr. Heather Heying. We are going to be discussing very heavy topic up front.
0:35.1	We're going to be discussing organ donation and the various ins and outs of that.
0:41.3	And then we're going to be discussing an amazing topic with all kinds of depth,
0:46.2	philosophical and otherwise. I don't think you need to be watching in order to enjoy it.
0:51.5	We're going to describe everything that we're going to show,
0:53.2	but it's going to come with a lot of pictures and video that we've taken of various animals
0:57.9	raising their offspring in the wild. And anyway, so if the heavy topic up front is going to bring
1:03.4	you down, the second part should give you a lot of more pleasant things to think about.
1:08.8	Although you could imagine, you could frame what we've seen with regard to the animals
1:13.7	raising their children, there is kind of an organ donation happening there too in which
1:19.3	one of the sets of youngans end up eating the organs of the other sets of youngens.
1:25.8	Yes, that is one of several connections that I think we will end up drawing between the two topics.
1:33.0	Yeah.
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