According to Rudyard Kipling's classic children's book, Just So Stories, the zebra got their

stripes when hiding from leopards and humans. They went into a quote, great forest, exclusively

full of trees and bushes and stripy, speckly, patchy, blatchy shadows, and what with standing

half in the shade and half out of it,

and what with these slippery, slidy shadows the trees falling on them, the zebra grew stripy.

End quote.

Today we'll look at some alternative theories.

Today, we'll talk about the zebra.

Equis Quagga.

I'm Mackin.

This is species.

Welcome.

Last week, I had a fascinating conversation with the anthropologist Richard Rangham,

and we released it on Friday.

Dr. Rangham is an expert in human evolution, and we spoke about his fascinating theory that

humans inadvertently domesticated themselves using the death penalty.

In the process, we got to talking about topics including morality, religion, patriarchy,

psychopathy, among other things.

I absolutely loved the conversation and a major thank you both to Dr. Rangham and to the donors for setting Dr. Rangham up with proper recording equipment.

Going forward, we will be doing interviews with equal recording quality on both ends.

Donor support continues to make an enormous difference here at species.

Thank you, Eric and the Animals for playing me in.

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