The people that built stone hench weren't the original inhabitants of the british als they weren't cheddar man's descendants. They were first farmers who kind of gradually migrated i guess from what's now turkey through europe bringing farming with them and it seems like because farming involved living close together close to animals new diseases emerged. This killed the the population that had lived in europe before the hunter gatherers like cheddar man and this new wave of people moved in and took over.
This week on the Penguin Podcast, Isy Suttie is joined by professor and writer, Jonathan Kennedy.
Jonathan joins us to discuss his debut work of non-fiction, Pathogenesis, a look at the latest science of infectious diseases and bacteria, and how it has shaped human evolution.
Isy and Jonathan also discuss the Stone Henge, his love for cycling scenery, how some bacteria have given us abilities we wouldn't otherwise have, and the importance of South Africa and Pata Pata by Miriam Makeba.
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