Dr. Shara Bailey is Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Anthropology at New York University (NYU) and Associated Researcher in the Department of Human Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.Thank you to our sponsors for supporting this episodeMorgan & Morgan forthepeople.com/gagnonFÜM https://tryfum.com/Ekster https://www.ekster.com/Timestamps00:00 Intro00:46 Teeth are white fossils04:39 Neanderthals had better teeth than us08:19 Early Homos/Neanderthals used tooth picks09:34 Men’s big mandibles + one diet doesn’t fit everyone16:08 Milk got additives18:02 When did Homo Sapiens rock up?20:33 The Chin defines man + science gets tweaked constantly26:29 Evolving a big brain31:45 All the Homos + Neanderthals can talk?38:58 How do we understand intelligence?43:00 Human fossils rarer than diamonds45:48 Evolution isn’t linear + Small brained Hobbits54:40 4 different forces of Evolution56:16 SPOILERS - Giants aren’t real, nor is Big Foot :(01:02:01 Big Foot got no bitches01:04:46 Primordial soup + simple evolution explanation01:09:01 Cockroaches, Dragon Flies + Homo Sapiens Supremacy01:12:00 Humans ability because of fine movement01:13:57 Better to be a pig satisfied than Socrates dissatisfied01:16:47 Octopi are self-aware + eating dumb animals01:18:20 Inheriting useless organs + Being bipedal01:22:45 Creationism v Evolution is a false debate01:28:28 Women hunted & were tool makers