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Hi everybody, from Wondery, welcome to another episode of Tides of History.

I'm Patrick Weiman, thanks for joining me.

We've got a great guest with us here today.

He's a professor in the School of Archaeology at Oxford University and director of the paleogenomics

and bio-archeology research network.

He and his colleagues have published on a truly extraordinary variety of topics focused

on how we can understand animal domestication through genomics.

Animal domestication is a topic that many of you have asked me about here over the past

few months of episodes on prehistory, and our guest today is right on the cutting edge

of that research.

Professor Gregor Larson, thank you so much for joining me.

Thanks for being here, this is great.

How has the revolution in genomics changed our understanding of animal domestication?

Like what's at our picture of this look like beforehand, broadly speaking, and how would

you describe it now?

Yeah, that's a really good question.

I think every time a new technique gets developed to investigate a question that people

have been looking at for a very long time using other methods, the temptation is always

to say that, oh, this is completely revolutionary, and that everything came before we just need

to sweep away because look at us with our brand new machines that go ping, and now we know

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