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Hi, and welcome to the Origins Podcast.

I'm your host, Lawrence Krause.

In this episode, I have a

delightful conversation with paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall, who's one of the world's experts on

human evolution, has written a number of wonderful popular books and was also curator of the

Museum of Natural History in New York's exhibition on human evolution.

It was controversial for obvious reasons, I guess, and it's a wonderful exhibit.

But more than that, he's actually interested in many things,

and one of the things we talk about is his fascination with the natural history of beer,

among other things.

So I hope you'll enjoy listening to my discussion with Ian in this episode of the Origins Podcast.

Ian, it's nice to be with you again.

And I've often learned more about my species from you than others and

I hope to today. I want to start with, as we talk about human origins, I want to talk about

your human origins, and not all the way back, but what got you interested in studying hominids in the first place?

Basically, I stumbled into it.

You know, I think that basically the only honest way to discover anything is by accident.

Yeah.

And, you know, I was raised in Kenya.

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