
Dec 8, 2021 • 14M
From Silk to Pastries - audio edition
Gifting Traditions Across Time, Space, and Species
Audio reads of articles from Natural Selections: If it evolved, it's fair game: from jungles to hospitals, from herons and ghost moths to vitamin D and viruses, these reads of weekly essays cover lots of ground.
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This week’s post was proposed by Drew Schneidler, my friend and frequent collaborator, who is a co-author of the resulting essay. Bret and I first met Drew in 2006, when he was a student in our co-taught college program, The Extraordinary Science of Everyday Experience. He has been our friend ever since.
I loved the opportunity to explore gifting tradit…