Cosmic Queries: Primate Evolution

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🗓️ 19 October 2014

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Paleoanthropologist Dr. Ian Tattersall is back to help Neil deGrasse Tyson and Eugene Mirman answer fan questions about where primates came from, and where we’re going. Read more and listen to the full show at: http://www.startalkradio.net/show/cosmic-queries-primate-evolution

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:05.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.6	Star Talk begins right now.
0:15.9	This is Star Talk.
0:24.5	I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:28.4	The first studio is Eugene Merman, Eugene.
0:31.1	Hello.
0:32.1	You're a funny guy, Eugene.
0:33.1	Thank you.
0:34.1	Have you ever told you that?
0:35.1	I've heard it occasionally, mostly my mom, some people on the web.
0:38.2	A couple of people.
0:39.2	You're extremely knowledgeable as well as likable.
0:42.2	A couple of people on the web.
0:44.6	Today we're doing Cosmic Quarries.
0:47.7	Cosmic Quarries, themed to evolution.
0:52.3	Now, Star is evolved, the universe evolves, but that's generally not what people are going
0:55.4	to be asking us about.
0:56.8	So I did not want to do this alone.
0:58.6	I got to get back up on this.
1:01.0	So I comb the holes of the American Museum of Natural History and found one of its leading
1:05.7	evolution experts.
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