The Insight

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Latest Episodes

Altitude Adaptation and Denisovans
May 22, 2019

Razib talks to Emilia Huerta-Sanchez about her finding that altitude adaptation in Tibetans is due to Denisovan admixture. 

Neolithic Massacre
May 15, 2019

This week Razib talks to two researchers who have published a paper that reconstructs the relationships between a group of people who seem to have been killed in a conflict during the Neolithic in Poland. Show notes https://pxlme.me/Iy2T9T_T  

The Epigenetics Revolution
May 08, 2019

This week Razib talks to Dr. John Greally on what epigenetics really is, and why it is important. Show notes 

The $1000 Genome
May 01, 2019

Razib talks to Rodrigo Martinez of Veritas Genetics about what the age of "social genomics" will mean to us. 

Deconstructing the Denisovans
April 24, 2019

Spencer and Razib discuss who the Denisovans were, where they lived, and what it means for us as humans. 

The ape that understood the universe
April 16, 2019

Razib talks to evolutionary psychologist Steve Stewart-Williams about how the origins of our mind can inform how we interact with the world around us. Show notes: https://pxlme.me/cxm84D_0

Solving the Missing Heritability
April 10, 2019

Razib talks to Alexander Young on whether the missing heritability is solved, and what it is in the first place https://pxlme.me/LgByOD37

The genetic history of Ice Age Europe
April 02, 2019

Razib discusses the genetics of Pleistocene Europeans with Cosimo Posth. https://pxlme.me/Rxv09mQ2

This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution
March 27, 2019

David Sloan Wilson talks about the application of evolutionary theory to policy and people, and his book, This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution. https://pxlme.me/PqJs9Qy6

Historical Linguistics
March 18, 2019

Asya Pereltsvaig joins us to talk about historical linguistics, how language evolution relates to genetic evolution (or not), and what sorts of features are important in creating a phylogenetic tree of languages. https://pxlme.me/S7aXK2Bf