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The Insight
Insitome: Your guide to the story of you
Frequency: 1 episode/10d. Total Eps: 100
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Brian Hare and Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity
Season 3 · Episode 33
mardi 15 septembre 2020 • Duration 01:04:10
Razib discusses the new book Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity with one of the authors.
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B07ZC6XGGX/geneexpressio-20
Why Western Europeans are so WEIRD and why that matters!
Season 3 · Episode 32
mardi 8 septembre 2020 • Duration 50:21
Razib talks to evolutionary anthropologist Joe Henrich about his new book, The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous, https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B07RZFCPMD/geneexpressio-20
Psychiatry and genes
Season 3 · Episode 23
jeudi 11 juin 2020 • Duration 48:48
Razib talks to Dr. Emily Deans on what's like to work in psychiatry today in a world with personal genomics. https://twitter.com/evolutionarypsy
American Downfall: Cultural evolution, Peter Turchin, and the return of history
Season 3 · Episode 22
mercredi 3 juin 2020 • Duration 01:24:33
Spencer and Razib discuss current events in the context of cultural evolution. The history of decline, the American "Empire", and Peter Turchin's thoughts on social disorder http://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica/the_2020/
The genetic basis of facial variation
Season 3 · Episode 21
jeudi 28 mai 2020 • Duration 58:06
This week Razib talks to Dan Crouch about what we know about the genetics of the variation shape and features. https://www.pnas.org/content/115/4/E676.short
Ancient DNA and China
Season 3 · Episode 20
jeudi 21 mai 2020 • Duration 53:30
Spencer and Razib discuss the latest ancient DNA work that sheds light on East Asian prehistory (and also some coronavirus status update) https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/sites/reich.hms.harvard.edu/files/inline-files/YangSciecne2020.pdf
(excuse the "sound effects" early in the podcast!)
Chris Stringer on paleoanthropology in 2020
Season 3 · Episode 19
jeudi 14 mai 2020 • Duration 01:04:30
Razib catches up with Chris Stinger on the state of paleoanthropology in 2020 and the ramifications of what genetics has taught us about the diversity in Denisovans in the past few years!
Genetically Modified Organisms
Season 3 · Episode 18
jeudi 7 mai 2020 • Duration 50:37
Razib talks to Chad Niederhuth at Michigan State on the promise of GMO agriculture! http://niederhuthlab.com/
Coronavirus 2020: vaccination and the specter of revolution
Season 3 · Episode 17
vendredi 1 mai 2020 • Duration 01:04:32
Spencer and Razib discuss the state of the pandemic, why Spencer is skeptical of rapid vaccine development, and the political and cultural fallout of COVID-19. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/29/847755751/compared-to-china-u-s-stay-at-home-has-been-a-giant-garden-party-journalist-says
Alfred Russel Wallace and the Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago
samedi 25 avril 2020 • Duration 26:38
Spencer describes Wallace's encounter with Indonesia and his insight into evolution by natural selection.
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