Can hip-hop rhythms reveal the secrets of animal infidelity?
In short: Discover how TED Fellow Danielle N. Lee uses the beats of 1990s hip-hop to teach complex evolutionary biology and the surprising social lives of songbirds.
In the early 1990s, a major scandal emerged in evolutionary biology when researchers found that songbirds, previously believed to be strictly monogamous, actually participate in extra-pair copulation. Danielle N. By pairing insights into non-monogamous animals with a modern rendition of Naughty by Nature's 'O.P.P.', Lee connects scientific concepts to hip-hop culture.
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