Whales and cellphone buttons

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The talk compares whale flippers and mobile-phone buttons as examples of evolutionary change, drawing parallels between biological evolution and technological evolution. It discusses how functional features persist, change, or become vestigial over time in both organisms and devices, using whale fins and phone buttons as concrete examples.

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