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Aug 2020
54m 52s

How Should We Understand the Deep Human ...

Wondery / Patrick Wyman
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Professor John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, one of the world's best communicators on the deep human past and paleoanthropology, joins me to talk about archaic humans, genomics, and whether the concept of different human species even makes sense these days. Check out his blog, which is an amazing resource, and follow him on Twitter. Support ... Show More
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