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Today, you'll learn about what long lost genomes from the last ice age teach us about ancient hunter-gathers, how a COVID-era obsession helped make a

resilient new material and a proposal to create something very controversial,

the world's first octopus farm.

Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.

One of the best parts about studying history is seeing how connected we all are.

And sometimes a new discovery comes along that shows our

interconnectedness runs even deeper than we thought. For me that's an interesting

thought because it implies that in some way all of us are related to each other

distantly. What kind of discovery are we talking about today?

This is a discovery that researchers say rewrit the, and this is a direct quote, genetic history of our

ancestors. It's kind of a lot so bear with me for a second

but researchers have put together the biggest data set of prehistoric European

hunter-gatherer genomes ever created. The study comes from a collaboration of a

number of international universities and scientists and they succeeded in their

goal with a whopping 356 hunter-gatherer genomes from all over Europe and Central Asia.

That is a ton. Okay, so hunter-gatherers, how long ago are we talking here?

Each of them lived somewhere between 5,000 and 35,000 years ago, and many of them are the ancestors of modern day Europeans and Asians. To top it all off, this genome set includes people who were alive during the last glacial maximum or

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