What If Neandertals Buried Their Dead?
If we can see ourselves in the way our ancient cousins dealt with death…what else could we have in common?
Episodes
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What If Neandertals Buried Their Dead?
S5 E11 - 8m 9s
If we can see ourselves in the way our ancient cousins dealt with death…what else could we have in common?
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When Our Culture Changed Our DNA
S5 E10 - 9m 19s
Thanks to our ability to develop and share complex learned behaviors across generations - a thing we sometimes call culture - we have become the ultimate niche builders.
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These Creatures Were Darwin's Greatest Enemy
S5 E9 - 9m 58s
They may not look like much, but beneath that shell lies an evolutionary mystery - one that stumped the biggest names in natural history for over a hundred years.
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How Did Lucy Live and Die?
S5 E8 - 7m 20s
Did our most famous fossil ancestor, Lucy, die by falling out of a tall tree? The answer is part of a decades-long debate over how, exactly, our ancestors transitioned from life in the trees to life on the ground.
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Thylacoleo Is The Missing Australian Apex Predator
S5 E7 - 10m 4s
In Australia, evolution built a family of deadly predators by taking a group of cute, harmless herbivores and turning them murderous.
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We Met Neandertals Way Earlier Than We Thought
S5 E6 - 7m 28s
Maybe it’s a little self-centered that we can be pretty focused on the DNA that we got from Neanderthals – but we shouldn’t forget that gene flow goes both ways.
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How Plate Tectonics Gave Us Seahorses
S5 E5 - 7m 20s
How did seahorses — one of the ocean’s worst swimmers — spread around the globe? And where did they come from in the first place?
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Are We All Actually Archaea?
S5 E4 - 8m 21s
The unexpected discovery of an entirely new domain of life was pretty huge and surprising - even if archaea do just look like bacteria. But, in recent years, it’s been their connection to us that's turned out to be particularly full of surprises - ones that may mean we have a connection to a group known as Asgard.
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Darwin Missed An Example of Evolution Right Under His Nose
S5 E3 - 8m 53s
Charles Darwin encountered a tiny fox-like creature during his famous voyage but instead of discovering its fascinating evolutionary story, he just knocked it on the head with his geology hammer.
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Our Ancient Relative That Said 'No Thanks' To Life On Land
S5 E2 - 8m 59s
Around the time that some of our fishapod relatives were crawling out of the water, others were turning around and diving right back in.
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Where Did Water Come From?
S5 E1 - 10m 17s
Mercury, Venus, and Mars are all super low on water – so where did ours come from and why do we have so much of it? We think our water came from a few unlikely sources: meteorites, space dust, and even the sun.
Extras + Features
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A Quick Introduction to Eons
S1 - 1m 28s
Join hosts Hank Green, Kallie Moore, and Blake de Pastino as they take you on a journey through the history of life on Earth. From the dawn of life in the Archaean Eon through the Mesozoic Era — the so-called “Age of Dinosaurs” -- right up to the end of the most recent Ice Age. The evolutionary history of mammals including humans and other modern species is explored with these amazing paleontology
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