2023 was another exciting year in human origins research! Fossil discoveries and long-term primate studies expanded our understanding of what makes us human. In this episode, four Leakey Foundation scientists shared their favorite human evolution discoveries from the past year.
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Origin Stories is sponsored by Jeanne Newman, the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, and the Joan and Arnold Travis Education Fund.
Origin Stories is produced by Ray Pang. Our editor is Audrey Quinn. Theme music by Henry Nagle. Additional music by Blue Dot Sessions and Lee Roservere.
Bonus Episode: Short and Sweat
Episode 55: Monkeys Get Creative
Episode 54: The Obstetrical Dilemma
Sleep and the Moon
Episode 52: How to Study an Endangered Species
Episode 51: The Teeth Remember
Episode 50: Understanding Neanderthals
Episode 49: Exercise
Episode 48: Ancestor (rerelease)
Episode 47: Skin
Episode 46: Interview with María Martinón-Torres
Episode 45: Detective of the Dead
Episode 44: Custodian of the Ancestors
Episode 43: We Eat Bugs
Episode 42: The Cave Punan
Episode 41: Tribes Old and New
Episode 40: The Denisovans
Piltdown Man
Episode 38: From the Archive - Louis Leakey
Episode 37: From the Archive - Mary Leakey
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