Relaunch Episode 1: Briana Pobiner. Expert in Early Hominin diets - a podcast by Bunch of Apes Podcast

In this first episode of the relaunch, I am joined by Briana Pobiner, research Scientist and Museum Educator at Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Briana studied Evolutionary Anthropology and has researched into meat eating developments in early Hominins such as Homo Erectus. She has been on the podcast before and for more information from her regarding her work on the early human diet and meat eating, take a listen to this episode from back in 2018.

https://soundcloud.com/bunchofapes/the-evolution-of-the-human-diet-with-briana-pobiner

In this new episode, we chatted about how she is finding lockdown and how she keeps busy with remote projects. We took a stroll out of Africa with Homo-erectus and asked did they hunt, store food, where they more like Humans or apes? I found out about Isotopes and how they help us understand early human diets far better then archaeological finds that are difficult to find and analyse from so far back in the past.

We clear up some myths that the Human diet is 'supposed to be' all meat and no carb, as some diet influencers unfortunately may try to lead you to believe.

Briana talked about cross species cultural exchange possibilities and then saw for herself, some cross species genetic transfer possiblities....in my bloody brow ridge. So I got revenge by asking her some hard hitting questions like could the human race adapt to a diet of just Doritos and would she go inter-species with a Neanderthal if she was single!

Lots of fun and I, as always learnt loads. Briana is a real expert with a skill and passion for making her filed understandable and accessible to all.

You can find out more about the Human Oranges [Origins] programme here:

https://humanorigins.si.edu/

and you can watch the episode on youtube here:
https://youtu.be/2JnlJy-4tKw

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