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My guest today is Douglas Emlen, a professor at the University of Montana. He is the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering from the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House. He has also earned multiple research awards from the National Science Foundation, including their five-year CAREER award. The topic is his book Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:  Taking our lessons from animals The connection with human and animal arms races International hacking Comparing the fiddler crap to US and USSR bombers during the cold war Defining evolutionary biology How an arms race can run its course via the example of the sabertooth tiger The arms race in the trading world How the cuttlefish has found its way around the “alpha” system Finding “workarounds” when the deck is stacked against you War games and detente Why predictability in weapons is important One-on-one showdowns The importance of being nimble  Jump in! --- I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show. To start? I’d like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/ You can watch a free video here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/video/ Can’t get enough of this episode? You can choose from my thousand plus episodes here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/podcast My social media platforms: Twitter: @covel Facebook: @trendfollowing LinkedIn: @covel Instagram: @mikecovel Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

My guest today is Douglas Emlen, a professor at the University of Montana. He is the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering from the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House. He has also earned multiple research awards from the National Science Foundation, including their five-year CAREER award. The topic is his book Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: <ul> <li>Taking our lessons from animals</li> <li>The connection with human and animal arms races</li> <li>International hacking</li> <li>Comparing the fiddler crap to US and USSR bombers during the cold war</li> <li>Defining evolutionary biology</li> <li>How an arms race can run its course via the example of the sabertooth tiger</li> <li>The arms race in the trading world</li> <li>How the cuttlefish has found its way around the “alpha” system</li> <li>Finding “workarounds” when the deck is stacked against you</li> <li>War games and detente</li> <li>Why predictability in weapons is important</li> <li>One-on-one showdowns</li> <li>The importance of being nimble</li> </ul> Jump in! --- I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show. To start? I’d like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: <a href="https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/</a> You can watch a free video here: <a href="https://www.trendfollowing.com/video/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.trendfollowing.com/video/</a> Can’t get enough of this episode? You can choose from my thousand plus episodes here: <a href="https://www.trendfollowing.com/podcast" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.trendfollowing.com/podcast</a> My social media platforms: Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/covel" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">@covel</a> Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/trendfollowing/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">@trendfollowing</a> LinkedIn: <a href="https://linkedin.com/in/covel/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">@covel</a> Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mikecovel/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">@mikecovel</a> Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

Ep. 331: Douglas Emlen Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio