Our newest human relative, busting human sniff myths, and the greenhouse gas that could slow global warming

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Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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This week we have stories on ancient hominids that may have coexisted with early modern humans, methane seeps in the Arctic that could slow global warming, and understanding color without words with Online News Intern Lindzi Wessel. John McGann joins Sarah Crespi to discuss long-standing myths about our ability to smell. It turns out people are probably a lot better at detecting odors than scientists thought! Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Streluk/iStockphoto; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.5	I'm Sarah Crespi.
0:47.8	In this week's show, John McGahn talks to us about long-standing myths regarding our ability to smell.
0:54.3	People are probably a lot better at detecting odors than previously thought.
0:59.3	And Lindsay Wessel is here with a roundup of stories from our daily news site.
1:06.3	Now we have Lindsay Wessel, an intern for our daily news site.
1:10.3	She's here to talk about some recent online stories.
1:12.7	First up, we have one on ancient human antics.
1:16.1	We've talked about the coexistence of modern humans, denisivins, and Neanderthals before.
1:22.5	Three different kinds of people all walk the earth at the same time, sometimes even getting a little intimate
1:29.3	with each other.
1:30.3	Now someone else may have joined the party.
1:33.3	Homo Noletti.
1:35.3	What do we know about these guys, Lindsay?
1:37.3	Well, the first Homo Noletti fossils were found in 2013 during a fossil gathering expedition
1:43.3	in caves in South Africa. In order to get the bones,
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