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The Dissenter · 2025-11-21 · 58 min · 9,841 words

#1179 Jaap de Roode - Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves

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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of the Day Center. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Yap Der Houd. He is Samuel C. Dopps professor in the Department of Biology at Emory University.

And today we're talking about his book, Doctors by Nature, How Ants, Apes and Other Animals Heal themselves. So Dr. Derhoud, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one. Thanks so much for having me.

Okay, so what is the premise of the book? I mean, what do you explore there exactly in terms of how animals can produce, I guess, and use their own medicines? That's right, yeah. So just um, you know, what what I like about the book is like just the pictures of animals and uh and that's really where where it comes from. It's a fascination with nature and with animals and

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