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    The Insight

    The Insight

    The Insight

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    Length:
    100 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    Where did we come from? One of humanity's most basic questions, the answer is fascinating. Weaving together insights from the fields of genetics, archaeology, linguistics, and paleoanthropology, hosts Spencer Wells and Razib Khan take us on a grand tour of human history. Scientific storytelling at its best.
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 100 episodes

    Title

    Brian Hare and Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity

    Razib discusses the new book Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and...

    64 minutes
    		Sep 15, 2020

    Why Western Europeans are so WEIRD and why that matters!

    Razib talks to evolutionary anthropologist Joe Henrich about his new book, The WEIRDest...

    50 minutes
    		Sep 08, 2020

    Why much of science is fiction

    Razib talks to Stuart Ritchie about his new book, Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Ne...

    80 minutes
    		Sep 03, 2020

    Siberian paleohistory

    Razib and Spencer discuss the geography, prehistory, and genetics, of Siberia. Also, th...

    79 minutes
    		Aug 06, 2020

    Sundaland: a human evolutionary hearth

    Razib and Spencer discuss why the geology and biogeography of Southeast Asia may explai...

    93 minutes
    		Jul 31, 2020

    Peopling the Americas 32,000 years ago

    Razib discusses revolutionary new work published in Nature that tells us that modern hu...

    41 minutes
    		Jul 23, 2020

    Ghost in the machine

    Spencer and Razib talk about what we mean when we say "ghost population" in human genet...

    53 minutes
    		Jul 16, 2020

    Native American admixture into Polynesia!

    Razib talks to Alex Ioannidis on the new paper which he is a first author of which argu...

    44 minutes
    		Jul 09, 2020

    Will to Power and the Holocene transition

    Razib and Spencer talk about what a new ancient DNA paper from Neolithic Ireland sugges...

    61 minutes
    		Jun 26, 2020

    Two cultures, humanities and science

    Spencer and Razib discuss what the humanities can offer to science with Kerim Yasar, pr...

    60 minutes
    		Jun 18, 2020