AYA Analytica financial health memo August 2019
As of August 2019, this regular podcast is available on our Andy Yeh Alpha fintech network platform. The conventional wisdom suggests that chameleons change their skin coloration in order to camouflage their presence for better survival through Darwinian biological evolution . This naive intuition seems so natural and nomological that most people tend to assume so on the basis of common sense. However, scientific research shows that chameleons run much faster than their predators. This fresh insight leads subsequent scientists to view camouflage as only part of the story for this functional skin coloration. More recent research suggests that chameleons typically vary their skin coloration to express social signals in response to other chameleons, external conditions, and physiological changes. Specifically, bright skin color signals an aggressive emotion while dark skin color reflects a submissive reaction. Overall, scientific research trumps basic intuition and common sense. The same...