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Here We Are

Burning Energy + Evolutionary History

Here We Are

Shane Mauss

Science

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Shane talks with Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University, Herman Pontzer. They dive deep into how ancient humans, primates and non-primates burn energy and what we can learn from it. What is Persistence Hunting, and when did humans split from chimps? Charity Of The Week: The National Center For Science Education www.NCSE.org  Visit our sponsor - Quip www.getquip/hereweare Libro.fm is the first audiobook company to make it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for the price of one. Outro Music - “Crucial Conversation” by Chrash https://chrash1.bandcamp.com/    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the show everybody a little bit of new information as it's coming in trying to put

0:06.4

together the next Michael meditations silosibin retreat specifically for here we are guests I'm trying to keep you guys up to date with

0:15.8

everything going on with that we have dates confirmed for January 18th to the

0:21.6

25th of 2020. I don't have the pricing yet together. It's not

0:27.2

available to book just yet but you can email Michael Meditations or me at the Here We Are Podcast you might be better off

0:35.2

doing micomeditations because they can answer a lot more of your questions there

0:40.8

but we're still trying to figure out if we're going to make it a higher end

0:45.4

retreat or more of a budgeted retreat I don't know you guys can write and see what

0:51.4

you'd be interested in.

0:52.5

There's usually a couple different price points,

0:54.6

just depending on the kind of accommodations

0:58.1

that you're looking for and after.

1:00.8

And so I wanted to, the main thing was, I mean, this has just been, ever since Jamaica, I've just been feeling so great and it was just such a great way to kick off the spring and to meet new friends and have this great time in a tropical paradise and I was just thinking about how brutally

1:27.4

miserable I was this winter and how I seemed to be more and more affected by

1:32.1

seasonal depression each year.

1:34.4

I don't know if it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

1:36.5

I don't know if it's because I booked a lot more stuff in like the really harsh climates this year in January. Whatever it was, you know, I lost like

1:46.3

months of regular productivity, I was miserable the whole time, it was just not great and so that's why I'm gonna see there's a

1:56.0

little experiment rather than so right at the exact time that that started which was

2:01.9

like mid-January. What if instead I spent

2:05.2

that time in Jamaica? Will it be completely different from me? I'm guessing that

2:10.8

it will be. I'm guessing that it would be for many of you as well who deal

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