Ep. 331: Douglas Emlen Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2015

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Douglas Emlen, a professor at the University of Montana. He is the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering from the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House. He has also earned multiple research awards from the National Science Foundation, including their five-year CAREER award.

The topic is his book Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Taking our lessons from animals
The connection with human and animal arms races
International hacking
Comparing the fiddler crap to US and USSR bombers during the cold war
Defining evolutionary biology
How an arms race can run its course via the example of the sabertooth tiger
The arms race in the trading world
How the cuttlefish has found its way around the "alpha" system
Finding "workarounds" when the deck is stacked against you
War games and detente
Why predictability in weapons is important
One-on-one showdowns
The importance of being nimble

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0:00.0	This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Cobell.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.1	I bet you did not think animal weapons would be the topic of my podcast today.
0:40.8	But damn straight.
0:42.1	It's all about animal weapons.
0:45.0	And how the evolution of animal weapons can not only tell us something about animals
0:51.6	and what's going on with their evolution.
0:55.7	What parallels can we draw for us humans?
1:00.4	A fantastic connection, a fantastic parallel world, so to speak.
1:06.6	My guest today connects those worlds.
1:09.5	Douglas Emlin is an evolutionary biologist and professor of biology at the University of
1:13.6	Montana.
1:14.8	His research, among many research topics, but his core research provides insights into the
1:20.3	development and evolution of exaggerated male weaponry, such as the horns found in scarab
1:26.4	beetles.
1:28.0	Think saber-toothed cats.
1:29.4	Think the massive antlers on elk.
1:32.8	I don't even recall exactly how I found out about Doug.
1:36.7	But I saw this excerpt.
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