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Welcome to the Scientific American podcast, Science Talk, posted on December 18th, 2012.

I'm Steve Merski.

On this episode,

New environments inside this starship, for example, new radiation environments,

whatever the gas composition is that people are breathing,

whatever is the gravity field,

those basic environmental conditions will reshape the human genome.

That's Cameron Smith. He's an anthropologist at Portland State University, who studies human evolution and pre-history.

He's also very interested in the human future, including how space travel will impact the human race, both culturally

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