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The Skeptics Guide #897 - Sep 17 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Neanderthal Brain in Silicon, You Know?

Bob Greene: Is it really that Neanderthals could never develop technology and we did or, you know, it's just, it's interesting to think about that because we really don't know. Could DNA last 40,000 years? Yeah. We have DNA from, from Neanderthals. When they will make one is a different question. He says computer simulations may be able to help us play out various scenarios using what computer model. That would say, "Okay, we did this 8 million times, ran it through our systems and in all these scenarios, Neanderthal didn't emerge" And then he asks why researchers created the most sophisticated synthetic microbiome yet with over a hundred species of

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