Cheddar Man: Science and the Skeleton

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🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Today's episode is from our brilliant sibling podcast The Ancients. Cheddar Man is the oldest almost complete skeleton of a Homo sapien ever found in Britain and, for this fantastic episode, Tristan spoke to the scientist who has drilled a (very small) hole in him. Dr Selina Brace is a biologist who works with ancient and degraded DNA. At the Natural History Museum in London, where Cheddar Man currently resides, Selina and her team have been able to examine this iconic skeleton’s genetic makeup and deduce from it more information about the evolution of our species, as well as the lifestyles and even appearances of Homo sapiens moving from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic era.

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0:00.0	You. Yeah, you.
0:02.1	It's time to muller lighten up those dark, gloomy nights
0:06.1	and grab winder by the spoon.
0:08.4	Say goodbye, gloom and hello, yum.
0:12.0	With delicious cherry, toffee flavor,
0:14.6	an even flipping banana and custard flavor.
0:17.3	Muller light, find your flavor today.
0:22.8	Hi, everybody. Welcome to Dan Snow's History.
0:24.9	We've got an episode of our brilliant sibling podcast,
0:27.9	The Ancient, which is climbing all the way up the charts,
0:30.2	all by its loan some of these days.
0:32.0	Well done to the team there.
0:34.0	Tristan, on the old words bit,
0:37.1	Sophie editing it brilliantly.
0:39.3	This week they talked to Dr. Salina Brace.
0:40.9	She's a barologist who works
0:43.0	at the Natural History Museum in London
0:45.7	with ancient and degraded DNA.
0:48.1	And she has made some remarkable discoveries
0:51.1	about the oldest complete skeleton of a homo sapi
0:53.4	that's ever found in Britain.
0:55.0	He's known as Cheddar Man.
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