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The Origin of Us: Human evolution (Ep 47)
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The Origin of Us: Human evolution (Ep 47)

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?


In 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 …

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