Homo Sapiens, With Just a Few Neander Hall Jeans

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"i was watching this lecture from 20 18 i enjoy. And the scientist from south africa named doctor caron warren." She's basically talking about our ancestral story. Basically, what happens is, we're all evolving in africa. What happens then is that this as ours, some of them leave africa, which leads to an evolutionary split. The ones who left for europe and asia, those ones become neander tall,. While the ones that stayed in africa eventually become us homosepians. Past four million years, the homosapians um some of us africa. We reunite in europe with our long lost, under tall cousins. Ultimately

A few months ago, co-Host Latif Nasser, who was otherwise healthy, saw blood in his poop. It was the start of a medical journey that made him not only question what was going on in his body, but also dig into the secret genetic story of how we became human. Curled up in a hospital bathroom, Latif tries to sort out whether his ordeal is the result of a long-lost sibling knifing him in the gut or, on the contrary, a long-forgotten kindness shared between two human-ish travelers.

Special thanks to Azra Premiji, Avir Mitra, Suzanne Lehrer, David Reich, Sriram Sankararaman, Ainara Sistiaga, Carl Zimmer, Carly Mensch, Nihal Kaur, Charlotte Hsu and Bert Gambini at the University at Buffalo Media Relations, and Latif's GI Doctor Florence Damilola Odufalu and her entire team, as well as all the staff at LA County-USC Medical Center and Keck USC hospitals who looked after Latif during his hospitalization.

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