Famous Fossils w/ Lydia Pyne

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

Talk Nerdy, Inc.

Natural Sciences, Science, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2016

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Just in time for Halloween, Cara is joined by Dr. Lydia Pyne, the author of "Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils." A science historian with training in paleoanthropology, Lydia has special insight into the fossilized hominin ancestors many of us have grown to love, like Lucy, the Old Man of La Chapelle, and the Taung Child, to name a few.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to talk Nurdy. It's Monday, October 31st. Happy
0:18.1	Halloween everyone and I'm your host Kara Santa Maria. Actually, it wasn't really planned this way,
0:25.2	so it's not really an honor of Halloween,
0:27.3	but kind of luckily in keeping with Halloween.
0:32.0	I'm really excited about this week's episode. I have a
0:34.6	chance to chat with the author of Seven Skeletons, Lydia Pine. But before we
0:40.9	jump into that, I want to thank those of you who made TalkNurdy possible this week.
0:45.0	And I also want to share some new updates about the TalkNurdy store online,
0:50.0	where I have some new goodies for you guys.
0:53.0	Those of you who supported the show via the Patreon portal
0:58.0	by visiting Patreon.com slash TalkNurdy,
1:02.0	thank you once again. You guys really do make the show possible for everybody
1:07.7	to download completely free of charge. So once again I want to thank Phil T-Bair Ron Canoblock Pedro Rosario Barbosa,
1:16.7	Stuart Aog, the Honorable Husband Charles Payit, Jafe, Gabrielle, Felipe Herramio Gonzalez, Brian Holden, and last but certainly not least, Jeffrey Sewall.
1:29.2	I also want to thank those of you who support the show in other ways like rating and
1:35.2	reviewing on iTunes, sharing the show with your friends and family via social
1:39.8	media and visiting the talk nerdy store. If you are interested you can go
1:44.6	to kara Santa Maria.com and click through to the store. I have some new
1:48.9	goodies up on the store, a new bundle with a brand new leather bookmarks and key chains that are made by hand with the talk
1:55.8	nerdy logo and I'm really excited that I get to now sell copies of the
2:01.4	tiny thinkers book Charlie and the Tortoise. It's a beautiful
2:05.3	wonderful kids book about Charles Darwin as a child visiting the Galapagos and
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