Brian Hare and Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity
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 Rediscovering Our Common Humanit... Read more
15 Sep 2020
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1hr 4mins
Why Western Europeans are so WEIRD and why that matters!
Why Western Europeans are so WEIRD and why that matters!
Razib talks to evolutionary anthropologist Joe Henrich about his new book, The WEIRDest People in the World: How the Wes... Read more
8 Sep 2020
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50mins
Why much of science is fiction
Why much of science is fiction
Razib talks to Stuart Ritchie about his new book, Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the ... Read more
3 Sep 2020
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1hr 20mins
Siberian paleohistory
Siberian paleohistory
Razib and Spencer discuss the geography, prehistory, and genetics, of Siberia. Also, the time Spencer experienced a Sibe... Read more
6 Aug 2020
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1hr 19mins
Sundaland: a human evolutionary hearth
Sundaland: a human evolutionary hearth
Razib and Spencer discuss why the geology and biogeography of Southeast Asia may explain why it is so important in the h... Read more
31 Jul 2020
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1hr 33mins
Peopling the Americas 32,000 years ago
Peopling the Americas 32,000 years ago
Razib discusses revolutionary new work published in Nature that tells us that modern humans were present in the Americas... Read more
23 Jul 2020
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41mins
Ghost in the machine
Ghost in the machine
Spencer and Razib talk about what we mean when we say "ghost population" in human genetics, and why it's so important to... Read more
16 Jul 2020
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53mins
Native American admixture into Polynesia!
Native American admixture into Polynesia!
Razib talks to Alex Ioannidis on the new paper which he is a first author of which argues that there is pre-Columbian Na... Read more
9 Jul 2020
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44mins
Will to Power and the Holocene transition
Will to Power and the Holocene transition
Razib and Spencer talk about what a new ancient DNA paper from Neolithic Ireland suggests about radical inequality and p... Read more
26 Jun 2020
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1hr 1min
Two cultures, humanities and science
Two cultures, humanities and science
Spencer and Razib discuss what the humanities can offer to science with Kerim Yasar, professor of East Asian literature ... Read more
18 Jun 2020
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1hr