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The Hunting Collective

Ep. 91: Studying the Earliest MeatEaters and the Evolution of the Human Diet with Brianna Pobiner

The Hunting Collective

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.53K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2019

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

This week on this show, Ben O’Brien and Phil the Engineer take a closer look at the reaction (both good and bad) to Episode #89 with Dr. Carolyn Finney. In the interview portion of the show, Ben is joined by Brianna Pobiner, a paleoanthropologist at the Smithsonian studying the evolution of the human diet. After a walk through “The Hall of Human Origins,” they discuss how eating meat has contributed to our humanity. Enjoy.

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0:00.0

If you got kids like me, you know summer break is coming up. School's almost out.

0:07.0

It's time for that perennial question. How do you keep your kids occupied off the couch

0:12.0

when you're busy on long summer days? You sick of yelling at them, get out of the house and go,

0:18.6

oh, sorry! Well, how do you do that? Look no further. We've got a book that will provide the answer

0:25.1

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0:32.4

Chock full of fun activities and adventures that will help build serious outdoor kids. We're talking

0:38.7

knowledgeable, tough, competent kids with a little bit of a raw edge to them. You want to build up a good

0:47.3

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0:53.0

build a wildlife viewing blind. How to gig a bullfrog. How to navigate through the wilderness using

0:58.9

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1:04.6

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1:11.6

And one, I've been wanting to write my whole career. I was just waiting until I had kids long

1:15.3

enough to give me some expertise on the subject. And now that my oldest is 13, I've been at this

1:20.8

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1:26.6

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1:33.5

It's for kids eight and up. Catch a crayfish count the stars. Raise some serious outdoor kids with

1:40.2

some serious know how get the book now. Oh, hey, everybody. Episode 91 coming right at you. I mean,

1:47.6

Phil, Bozeman, Montana, it's cold snow. It's almost Christmas. But we're still having a good time.

1:53.4

We hope you are too. This episode is full of stuff. Some of it is good. Some of it is negative.

1:59.6

That is because we're reviewing their reaction to episode 89 with Carolyn Finney, where we talked

2:04.8

about hunting while black in America. It's a that was a conversation that you should have listened to.

2:10.6

We'll stop now if you haven't. And we're back. But we're going to read some of your reaction.

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