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Aug 11, 2017

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Our new season of Origin Stories is coming soon! This is a sneak preview of the first episode.

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Aug 11, 2017

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This award-winning show combines science and narrative to explore our human story and explain why we are the way we are. Listen and explore human evolution one story at a time.

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Episode 05: Discovery at Ledi-Geraru: Have you ever wondered what it's like to make a major fossil discovery? Arizona State University graduate student Chalachew Seyoum and professor Kaye Reed tell us their exciting story. Seyoum was working as part of a team co-directed by... by Origin Stories
15 min listen
Episode 12: The Origins of Tuberculosis: Tuberculosis is the world's leading cause of death by infectious disease, and it has been plaguing humanity for a very long time. In the first episode of a two-part series on infectious disease and human evolution, Dr. Anne Stone of Arizona State... by Origin Stories
18 min listen
Episode 07: The Currant Bush of Life with Bernard Wood: In On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin used a sketch of a tree of life to help describe his theory of evolution. In this metaphor, the branches of the tree represent the relationships between all living and extinct creatures. Humans, like all... by Origin Stories
18 min listen
Episode 01: On Two Feet: One of the things that makes us different from other animals is the way we move around on two feet. Figuring out how and why our ancestors first stood up is one of the big questions in the study of human evolution. Carol Ward is an anatomy professor... by Origin Stories
13 min listen
Intro to Origin Stories: The Leakey Foundation Podcast by Origin Stories
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Episode 09: Did Cooking Make Us Human?: We humans have evolved very differently from other primates. Is there one thing responsible for humans becoming human? Some evolutionary biologists think that the way we process our food, namely cooking it, could explain why our species developed so... by Origin Stories
18 min listen
Episode 08: Being Human with Robert Sapolsky: This episode of Origin Stories was recorded live in San Francisco as part of the Bay Area Science Festival. It was the first of The Leakey Foundation and the Baumann Foundation’s new “Being Human” event series. Our speaker was Robert... by Origin Stories
39 min listen
Episode 29: Rewriting Our Story: For a long time, scientists have been searching for the first Homo sapiens in the Great Rift Valley of Ethiopia. The story we've been telling about the origin of our species has gone something like this: Around 200,000 years ago in East Africa, the... by Origin Stories
24 min listen
Episode 02: Why Do We Get Hiccups?: Hiccups are an annoyance that we all deal with, but don't usually give much thought to. In this episode of Origin Stories, independent producer Ben Nimkin brings us the remarkable story of Charles Osborne, a man who holds the Guiness World Record... by Origin Stories
18 min listen
Episode 03: Jane Goodall: Dr. Jane Goodall is a legend. She is a science hero, a trailblazing researcher who inspires people around the world. In this episode, Jane Goodall shares part of the story of how she went from working as a secretary to becoming the world's leading... by Origin Stories
24 min listen
Episode 04: How to Document a Society: Every day for 55 years a dedicated group of researchers, students, and Tanzanian field assistants have spent their days crawling through thorns and vines as they follow chimpanzees to observe their behavior. They write everything down in notes and on... by Origin Stories
16 min listen
Episode 11: Face Mites: The bad news is that everybody has face mites. The good news is that these tiny cousins of spiders and ticks seem to be harmless for the vast majority of us. In this episode, entomologist and evolutionary biologist Michelle... by Origin Stories
20 min listen
Episode 06: Being a Nice Animal: For over 35 years Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth have been studying wild African primates in order to better understand the evolution of the human mind. In this episode they tell us about their long-term study of free-ranging baboons in the... by Origin Stories
18 min listen
Episode 14: Being Human - Why Do We Laugh?: Laughter is a universal human behavior. Have you ever wondered why we laugh or what it really means when we do? Greg Bryant of UCLA studies the evolution of communication and vocal behavior, especially of spontaneous vocal expressions such as... by Origin Stories
40 min listen
Episode 13: Evolutionary Arms Race: In this episode we take a closer look at the evolutionary arms race between humans and the microbes that make us sick. What does each side bring to the fight? Dr. Pardis Sabeti of Harvard University is a computational biologist who uses math and... by Origin Stories
21 min listen
Episode 17: Being Human - Speaking of Sex: Humans are very verbal compared to other animals. We talk constantly, and our voices can signal many things beyond the meaning of our words. The human voice is also highly differentiated between the sexes. In this live recording of our... by Origin Stories
29 min listen
Episode 10: Being Human with Alison Gopnik by Origin Stories
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Episode 18: Empathy: Empathy has long been considered a uniquely human trait, but it's an ability that has also been observed in apes and other animals. Primatologist Frans de Waal says that examples of empathy in non-human primates and other mammals suggest that... by Origin Stories
26 min listen
Episode 25: Stones and How to Use Them: The paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey described stone tools as “fossilized human behavior.” These rocks, shaped by our human ancestors and found in archaeological sites around the world, can give us clues about how ancient people lived.... by Origin Stories
23 min listen
Episode 16: Neanderthals: People have been fascinated with Neanderthals since they were first discovered in the mid-1800s. For a long time, they have been seen as dumb, brutish cavemen. As more discoveries have been made in the past few decades, our picture of who Neanderthals... by Origin Stories
23 min listen
Episode 31: The Four Year War: A scientist solves the mystery of the only known chimpanzee civil war...thus far. In 1960, Louis Leakey sent Jane Goodall to start her study of chimpanzees at Gombe National Park, Tanzania. Her first decade of research led her to think that... by Origin Stories
27 min listen
Episode 43: We Eat Bugs: Have you ever considered how profoundly food has shaped who we are as a species? Julie Lesnik is a paleoanthropolgist who studies the evolution of the human diet. Her special focus is on insects as food in the past, present, and the future. ... by Origin Stories
29 min listen
Episode 24: Ancestor: Just recently, the news media announced the discovery of a 13 million-year-old fossil ape called Alesi. This remarkable fossil was found in Kenya, and it’s from a time period where there’s a big blank spot in the fossil record of our family tree.... by Origin Stories
26 min listen
Episode 15: The Grandmother Hypothesis: When Kristen Hawkes first started to research the foraging habits of the Hadza hunter-gatherers, she noticed that the older women in the society were spending their time collecting food and sharing it with their grandchildren. She started to wonder if... by Origin Stories
13 min listen
Episode 19: Being Human - Born and Evolved to Run: Humans and our recent ancestors have been accomplished endurance runners for more than a million years. Our evolutionary history as runners partly accounts for why aerobic exercise is such a key component of human health. In this talk, recorded in... by Origin Stories
35 min listen
Origin Stories Season Three Preview: Origin Stories returns November 15th with more stories about how we became human. by Origin Stories
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Episode 32: From the Archive - Carl Sagan: Carl Sagan explores the evolution of human intelligence from the big bang, fifteen billion years ago, through today in this never-before-released archival lecture. Show Notes The Leakey Foundation is 50 years old this year, and we’re celebrating... by Origin Stories
48 min listen
Episode 35: From the Archive - Raymond Dart: Raymond Dart was getting dressed for a wedding when he was given two boxes of rocks and fossils. Inside the boxes, he found the first evidence of humanity’s African origins. This episode tells the story of the 1924 discovery of the Taung Child... by Origin Stories
32 min listen
Episode 27: Out of Eden the Long Way: Paul Salopek's Walk Around the World by Origin Stories
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Episode 30: Tales From the Field [LIVE]: Three true tales about what it's like to do field research. Kelly Stewart, Dorothy Cheney, and Robert Seyfarth share stories of gun smuggling, pet leeches, close encounters with hippos, and fan mail from one of the world's most infamous mass... by Origin Stories
30 min listen

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