Camel Inspired

Today I'd like to share an inspiring scientific detective story. It's a story about perseverance and genius, a trip though years of research, surprising discoveries and a totally different view on the king of the desert, the camel.

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Although this heroic story is told by Latif Nasser, director of research at Radiolab, the real hero in this tale is Canadian paleobiologist Natalia Rybczynski; she is the one that did the actual discovering, searching, persevering and thinking that has eventually led to some surprising insights on the origin of Camels.

The scientific journey toward these new insights about the quintessential desert-dwellers is marvelous all on it's own, but what stands out for me here is the tenacity with which this scientist has held on to something that literally looked like nothing special at all. For me Natalia Rybczynski shows us one of human's most admirable and important qualities; a deep-rooted passion and lust for knowledge. She shows how far we're willing to go in order to satisfy our almost childish curiosity about even the most unimportant seeming things in life.

Why do we care where camels came from? What good is it to us, where's the practical use for this highly specific piece of knowledge? Who will it benefit? I think part of my love for science and scientists is that the answers to these questions are "because", "nowhere" and "no one"; no other reason than one person's insatiable curiosity about one insignificant thing is needed to keep us going forward as a species. This is why I dread the day that science will be practiced only in significant ways if it could be of some immediate use to us. Let's hope that day never comes.

Here's the story: enjoy the TED talk by Latif Nasser, and I hope it's as inspiring for you as it was for me when I first saw it.

_{You have no idea where camels really come from | Latif Nasser}

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