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Interviewer(s)
Art Woods, Marty Martin
Interviewee(s)
Kate Wong
Description
Where, when, and how did Homo sapiens appear? What do we know about the complex set of ancestral hominins that preceded us? How recently did other hominin lineages live and what happened to them?
On this episode, we talk with Kate Wong, a senior editor at Scientific American, about her latest article, The Origin of Us. Our understanding of hominin evolution over the past several million years has been transformed by exciting new fossil finds and new DNA sequence data. We talk with Kate about the biggest news, the luxuriant evolutionary bush from which our ancestors emerged in Africa, and her favorite fossil species.
Cover photo: Comparison of Modern Human and Neanderthal skulls from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History via Wikimedia Commons. hairymuseummatt (original photo), DrMikeBaxter (derivative work) (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Date Published
9-2020
Language
eng
Length of Episode
58 minutes, 58 seconds
Digital File Format
audio/mp3
Document Type
Podcast
Recommended Citation
Woods, Art and Martin, Marty, "Episode 047: The Origins of Us: Human evolution" (2020). BigBiology Podcasts. 48.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/bigbiology_podcasts/48