Neanderthalk with "Kindred" Author Dr. Rebecca Wragg Sykes (113) - Ep 170

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Anna and Amber sit down with Dr. Rebecca Wragg Sykes, Paleolithic archaeologist and author of the book "Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death, and Art." We talk about Rebecca's education and her love for all things ancient, and she resolves some common misconceptions about our Neanderthal cousins. "Kindred" just came out in the States, so pick up a copy of your very own for an amazing synthesis of current Neanderthal knowledge.

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• Neanderthals Among Mammoths: Excavations at Lynford Quarry, Norfolk (via Archaeology Data Service)

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DNA: The Dirt, uh, Finds a Way - Ep 125

This year is the 20th anniversary of the first publication of the Human Genome Project, and the 10th anniversary of the Neanderthal Genome Project. Since both of these projects began, DNA research has changed what we know about the human story more than we could ever possibly have imagined. Come learn about a tiny fraction of this knowledge with us, and listen to our brains explode.

Links

• Protein Synthesis: an Epic on the Cellular Level (Internet Archive)

• Human Genome Project Information Archive 1990–2003 (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

• Human Genome Project FAQ (National Human Genome Research Institute)

• Game of chances: inheritance is a question of probability, not destiny (The Guardian)

• Why Race Is Not a Thing, According to Genetics (National Geographic)

• How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference (The Experiment Publishing)

• The Neanderthal DNA you carry may have surprisingly little impact on your looks, moods (Science)

• Neanderthal DNA highlights complexity of COVID risk factors (Nature)

• Neanderthal DNA in Modern Human Genomes Is Not Silent (The Scientist)

• Multiple lines of mysterious ancient humans interbred with us (National Geographic)

• Denisovan DNA in the genome of early East Asians (Max Planck Gesellscheft)

• The complete genome sequence of a Neandertal from the Altai Mountains (Nature)

• The Contribution of Neanderthals to Phenotypic Variation in Modern Humans (The American Journal of Human Genetics)

• Evidence found of Denisovans interbreeding with humans in Southeast Asia more recently than thought (Phys.org)

• The CRISPR-baby scandal: what’s next for human gene-editing (Nature)

• In a possible step forward for gene therapy, Stanford researchers made mice glow like fireflies (Stanford News)

• Neanderthal-like ‘mini-brains’ created in lab with CRISPR (Nature)

• 3 Human Chimeras That Already Exist (Scientific American)

• This Woman Is Her Own Twin: What Is Chimerism? (Live Science)

• The Case of the Woman Who Was Her Own Twin (Genetics Illustrated)

• Disputed Maternity Leading to Identification of Tetragametic Chimerism (New England Journal of Medicine)

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Neanderthalk with "Kindred" Author Dr. Rebecca Wragg Sykes - Ep 113

Anna and Amber sit down with Dr. Rebecca Wragg Sykes, Paleolithic archaeologist and author of the book "Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death, and Art." We talk about Rebecca's education and her love for all things ancient, and she resolves some common misconceptions about our Neanderthal cousins. "Kindred" just came out in the States, so pick up a copy of your very own for an amazing synthesis of current Neanderthal knowledge.

Links

• Neanderthals Among Mammoths: Excavations at Lynford Quarry, Norfolk (via Archaeology Data Service)

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (European Commission)

• Trowelblazers

• Rebecca Wragg Sykes

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Hip Neanderthals with Mayowa Adeboyega - Ep 97

These hips don't lie. Amber and Anna talk with paleoanthropologist Mayowa Adeboyega about her research on the evolution of the pelvis. Mayowa also gives us some insights on the experience of being Black in academia, and how she uses science communication and the occasional silliness to make anthropology more accessible.

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Mark My Words: Linguistics! - Ep 81

In this episode, Amber and Anna talk about talking. It’s finally an episode on linguistics! We think about Neanderthal speech, wrestle with syntax and semantics, and have a whole language family reunion.

Links

• What is Speech? What is Language? (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)

• The Neanderthal Throat—Did Neanderthals Speak? (Sapiens)

• Introduction to Linguistics (UCLA Linguistics)

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• Map of Indo-European Languages (Wikimedia)

• The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (via Google Books)

• The Origins of Proto-Indo-European: The Caucasian Substrate Hypothesis (Journal of Indo European Studies)

• Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe (Nature)

• Mysterious Indo-European homeland may have been in the steppes of Ukraine and Russia (Science)

• Telling Tales in Proto-Indo-European (Archaeology Magazine)

• Language Isolates and Their History, or, What’s Weird, Anyway?

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