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Thank you. Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Future Tech and Future Tech Health

Podcast and I have I'm here with Kenneth and Weiss. He's the Evan Pugh Professor of Anthropology and Genetics and Science at Pennsylvania State University.

And we're going to be talking about the role of genetics and biological variation and its evolution. Dr. Weiss has worked on the problem of diabetes

susceptibility in Ameri Indians and the effective genetic variation on

cardiovascular disease amongst many other things so well

Dr Rice thanks for coming how you do it I'm doing fine it's my pleasure to be here and

I hope I can answer any questions credibly yeah I will be I will start off with the as I was starting with asking you, you know, what's the origin of life? But maybe we'll leave a, you know, a real easy question for later on. Just kidding, but the ordering of life was the right chemicals in the right place and if you want to call somebody else.

So tell me about your current work what what are you working on right now and we'll dive into that.

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