Genetics and the Transformation of Prehistory: Interview with Spencer Wells and Razib Khan
Tides of History
Audible / Patrick Wyman
4.7 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Genetics has radically transformed our understanding of prehistory over the past two decades, revealing everything from the existence of brand-new, unknown species to interbreeding between Neanderthals and our human ancestors. I talked to geneticists Spencer Wells and Razib Khan, two of the world's most knowledgable communicators on genetics and prehistory, to get a sense for how things have changed.
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| 0:06.2 | Hi everybody, from Wondery, welcome to another episode of Tides of History, as always |
| 0:21.1 | I'm Patrick Weiman, thanks for joining me. |
| 0:23.7 | So as many of you are aware, since I've talked about it on social media, we're going |
| 0:27.5 | to be switching topics here on Tides of History in just a few months, starting in June. |
| 0:31.6 | We're going to be leaving behind the later Middle Ages and the early modern period, and |
| 0:35.2 | we're going to be heading to prehistory. |
| 0:37.0 | We're going to cover everything from the origins of humanity all the way up to about the |
| 0:41.4 | Bronze Age collapse over the course of the coming year. |
| 0:44.9 | So to help us get into that, I've got not one but two great guests for you here today. |
| 0:50.6 | Together they host the podcast The Insight, which covers a wide range of topics related |
| 0:54.9 | to genetics, and which I highly recommend to you. |
| 0:57.9 | Spencer Wells is an author, the founder and CEO of Insight, and the former director of |
| 1:02.3 | National Geographic's Geneographic project. |
| 1:05.3 | RezipCon is director of scientific content and Insight, and a long time commentator on |
| 1:09.3 | genetics and many other issues at his blog, GeneXpression. |
| 1:13.0 | Spencer and Rezip, thank you so much for joining me today. |
| 1:15.0 | Great to be here. |
| 1:16.2 | Same. |
| 1:17.2 | So, as I mentioned in a few short months, we'll be switching from the early modern period |
| 1:20.8 | to prehistory. |
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