📚 3 Books mentioned in "Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #429" of Lex Fridman Podcast

You go back to that Frans de Waal book, 'Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?', there's so many incredible examples of controlled studies where the researchers didn't understand how to shed this insurmountably human perspective and recognize that there's other types of intelligence, whether that's in elephants or cats.

Lex discusses 'Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?' by Frans de Waal to illustrate how researchers often overlook different forms of intelligence in animals, focusing on the limitations of a human perspective in scientific studies.

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In 'Mother of God', I write about the first one that me and JJ caught together, which was probably a little bigger than this table.

Paul Rosolie talks about his book, 'Mother of God', in the context of his experiences with caiman surveys. He recalls a specific moment involving a caiman he and JJ caught, illustrating how his writing is intertwined with real-life adventures in the Amazon.

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Richard Evan Schultes is someone I learned about from Wade Davis’ book ‘One River,’ which is this hefty tome about the Amazon.

Lex mentions that he learned about Richard Evan Schultes, a biologist and explorer, from the book 'One River' by Wade Davis. This comes up in a broader discussion about explorers and their approaches to natural exploration and scientific discovery.

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