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[–] [email protected] 56 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Not OP, I couldn't find a paper. Just this site that makes the same claim almost word for word, and cites a youtube video of a lecture at Stanford. I didn't watch the video, but this seems best described as a "plausible" explanation rather than a proven fact.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (3 children)

https://www.science.org/content/article/mole-rat-caste-lives-good-life

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago (1 children)

found the paper https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=Qpc4puUAAAAJ&citation_for_view=Qpc4puUAAAAJ:d1gkVwhDpl0C

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Reincarnation goals: request to be fat naked mole rat at the pearly gates.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

If you get to the Pearly Gates as a fat mole rat, point out to St Peter that with climate change and rising ocean levels, Heaven may need your attributes soon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

This says there are fat naked mole rats, but it says their role is to connect to other naked mole rats communities by digging when the ground is soft from rain. That's quite different from the claim that their role is to block the tunnels to stop them flooding.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Didn't find the passage that states anything about blocking passages from rain though...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Shit! That video is Robert Sapolsky's lecture. I have something like an "intellectual" crush on him. He has done pioneering works in behavioural science, and at the intersection of human physiology and psychology. One of his books "Why Zebra's Don't Get Ulcers" is entirely on the various effects of psychological stress on the human body.

He observed the same group of baboons for 25 years to understand their behaviour. Each year he used to spend 4 months with this group and observe them for more than 8 hours a day. "A Primate's Memoir" is another book on this. Recently he wrote "Behave", on the deterministic nature of human behaviour, tracing "aggression" back to the evolutionary reasons.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

more like layman meme than science meme :P