Where to meet a Neanderthal

To hear some people tell it — especially people on TikTok — inflammation is the root of all disease. It's... not that simple. But inflammation does have a lot to teach us about why modern life can make us feel so bad, and even what we might be able to do about it. Guest: Dylan Sc ...  Show more

A few months ago, we put out an episode about what silence sounds like, and it caught the attention of Rob Rosenthal, who hosts a podcast called Sound School about the craft of audio storytelling. So he called up host Noam Hassenfeld to ask him a question he couldn't stop thinkin ...  Show more

Early prehistorians had little more than stones and bones to work with as they tried to piece together the story of the Neanderthals, but today's researchers work in ways that early prehistorians could never have imagined. Archaeologist and author Rebecca Wragg Sykes' new book Ki ...  Show more

For hundreds of thousands of years Neanderthals have roamed the lands of what is today Europe and western Asia. But how did they survive, and what caused their decline?

Tristan Hughes delves into the fate of the last Neanderthals and continues our Ice Age mini-series ...

How have human beings evolved, and how could we evolve in the future?  And what are some famous first messages, and what can we learn from looking at them?

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There was a time when people knew a little about everything. Long before the iphone generation, people could used their minds to recall the information they needed. In order to carve out a living, these people needed to read a lot of books and have a lot of skills. We brought on ...  Show more