Revealing Ancient Human Advancements and Uncharted Deep Sea Exploration

Happy 300 episodes to our Curiosity Daily listeners! Today, you’ll learn about a massive database of human genomes that’s uncovering major new genetic discoveries, the scientists building stone age tools from scratch… and then putting them to work, and a treasure trove of deep sea discoveries in an underwater mountain range.  

Human Diversity  

• “Ambitious survey of human diversity yields millions of undiscovered genetic variants.” by Max Kozlov. 2024.  
• “NIH’s All of Us Research Program Releases First Genomic Dataset of Nearly 100,000 Whole Genome Sequences.” NIH. 2022.  
• “About.” NIH. 2021. 

Ancient Tool Use 

• “Scientists try out stone age tools to understand how they were used.” EurekAlert! 2024.  
• “Experiments with replicas of Early Upper Paleolithic edge-ground stone axes and adzes provide criteria for identifying tool functions.” by Akira Iwase, et al. 2024.  

Deep Sea Discoveries 

• “See the strange new species discovered near Chile - with the help of a deep-diving sea robot.” by Laura Baisas. 2024.  
• “Scientists Confirm Underwater Mountains Harbor Abundant Life Off Chile’s Coast.” Schmidt Ocean Institute. 2024.  
• “How much of the ocean has been explored?” NOAA. n.d. 

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