Live Chat - Ancient DNA

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Common Descent

Science, Natural Sciences, Education, Earth Sciences, Science:natural Sciences

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In this series, we invite scientists to live Q&As on YouTube, where we discuss topics we’ve covered before on the podcast. This episode, we discussed Ancient DNA with Dr. Leigha Lynch of Washington University. You can find Leigha on Twitter at @PantheraLeigha. You can also watch the video recording of this Live Chat on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfdiT8Klm_YO04cvDqZ-_O3Iiq0J5GZJz Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures:http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ New merch at the Common Descent Store! http://zazzle.com/common_descent Featuring art by Rob Soto! https://www.rob-soto.com/ Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcast Instagram: @commondescentpodcast PodBean: https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePRXHEnZmTGum2r1l2mduw The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:19.0	Hello, Will. Hello, David. Hello, Leah.
0:22.3	Hello. And hello, Internet. And welcome to Common Descent Live Chat. This is a brand new series that we are starting off now in the time of the great pandemic.
0:34.1	From home to reach more people, give you some more stuff to enjoy.
0:43.7	Following in the footsteps of the sloth chat that we did, way way back, we did a live chat about sloths, the goal here is that we are going to be inviting on guests, friends
0:49.5	of ours, other scientists to discuss topics that we have covered previously on the podcast.
0:55.8	So this one is about ancient DNA, which was the subject of episode 34.
1:00.6	And our guest today is a name you will recognize if you remember that episode.
1:05.0	Our friend Dr. Leah Lynch, Leah, go ahead and please introduce yourself to everybody.
1:10.5	Hi. All everybody. Hi.
1:11.0	All right.
1:11.6	Yes, I am Leah Lynch.
1:14.6	I'm a postdoctoral researcher at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
1:20.2	There I teach anatomy and I do research looking at the introspecific variation of stellets.
1:27.5	So most of my research up to this point has looked at Pine Martins, which are
1:31.7	adorable and fluffy, and you must Google, because they'll just make you happy in their
1:36.4	fluffiness.
1:37.3	I will concur.
1:41.0	But I also, in doing that work on ancient DNA, obviously, which is why I'm hearing.
1:46.3	Right, right.
1:47.2	And for a bit of background for our listeners, Leah went to the same master's program as well
1:53.9	and myself.
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