Hey, it's Ben Greenfield, welcome to this app insider interview with Spencer Wells, the author

of a really cool book called Pandora's Seed and an expert in genetic testing.

If you want to know more about websites like 23 and me and Geno Graphics and this mysterious

and intriguing world of digging into your genetics, you'll definitely want to listen to this

one.

I think that you can actually get 23 and me.com testing right now for about 99 bucks via

Salivary Drip. It's a pretty good deal. I did it last year. I'd highly recommend you check it

out if you want to see a glimpse into your genetics, but that being said, let's go ahead and jump

into today's app insider interview with Spencer Wells.

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Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield and my guest today is Spencer Wells. Spencer is a leading

population geneticist and he's the director of a genome project that he'll be telling you a

little bit more about in the podcast today. He's not only a scientist as well as a documentary

filmmaker, but he's also an author. He wrote a book called Pandora's Seed, which I actually

read last month after meeting Spencer at the ancestral health symposium in Boston a couple of

months ago. Fascinating book. So fascinating in fact that I wanted to get Spencer onto the show

to talk about it a little bit and kind of the whole link between modern agriculture and health

where it's brought us and where it's bringing us. So Spencer, thank you so much for coming on the

call today. Great to be here Ben. So you know the title of your book kind of sort of hints at what

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