Conversations with Vania
Hi everyone! My name is Vania, and here on this podcast I'm going to be talking to people from different backgrounds and fields about topics that are of great interest and importance to us today. We're asking big questions and diving deep into subjects.
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What Still Puzzles Robert Sapolsky About Humans? | The Mystery of Human Nature (opens the original)
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I had the great pleasure of speaking with Robert Sapolsky — one of the world's leading neuroscientists and primatologists. A professor at Stanford University, Sapolsky has spent decades studying stress, primate behavior, and the biology of human nature. His university lectures have been viewed by millions of people around the world, helping a global audience better understand why we behave the way we do. In this conversation, we explore some of the biggest questions about what makes us human. We
The Biggest Mysteries of Human Evolution | Chris Stringer (opens the original)
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What can the latest fossil discoveries tell us about our origins — and why are we the only human species left? In this conversation, I speak with renowned paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer about some of the greatest mysteries of human evolution. We discuss the remarkable discovery of the million-year-old Yunxian skull from China, why it may push the origins of the Denisovan lineage — and the common ancestry of Denisovans, Neanderthals, and Homo sapiens — much further back in time, and how new f
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