Climate and Diet of Early Humans

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🗓️ 28 December 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Did early humans eat a paleo diet? Can we learn how to deal with climate change by studying our ancient ancestors? Neil deGrasse Tyson, comic co-host Matt Kirshen, and geochemist Tina Lüdecke explore the climate and diet of early humans.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:13.0	This is Star Talk,
0:15.0	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse,
0:17.0	I'm your personal astrophysicist.
0:19.0	And today we're going to talk about ancient climate change,
0:23.0	ancient as in during the time we've been human,
0:27.0	and maybe even a little bit of our pre-human ancestors.
0:31.0	And what impact does climate change have on our diets?
0:36.0	What did they eat and was it good for them?
0:41.0	Okay, I don't have any expertise in this at all,
0:44.0	other than the fact that I eat food.
0:47.0	So we brought in an expert for this,
0:49.0	but before we introduce that expert,
0:52.0	let me show you my co-host for today.
0:54.0	Matt Kirschen, Matt, welcome back.
0:57.0	Hey, thanks, Neil, how you doing?
0:59.0	Dude, dude, are you still doing that show most likely could be science?
1:04.0	It's probably science.
1:07.0	I don't know why I cannot remember that.
1:10.0	It's amazing.
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