Doctors by Nature (Ep 142)

Nov 20, 2025
30 mins

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How do animals use medication and can humans learn from them? What are the evolutionary consequences of animal self-medication?

In this episode, we talk with Jaap de Roode, the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Biology at Emory University and author of the book Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves. Jaap’s research on monar…

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