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[Unedited] Mary Doria Russell With Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Transition From Catholicism to Anthropology

I was trained as a four fields anthropologist. And ultimately, I got my PhD in biological anthropology and I specialized in human evolution. So biological paleo anthropology would be the study of human evolution. But when you say paleo anthropology, is that what I would have seen stones and bones? Okay. Well, yeah. Did you even let them get through Vatican II before you left? well, yeah. The thing about Vatican II, from my standpoint of 15, was that they had taken the best music that had been made. They replaced it with a cheap audience participation show like guitars and sopranos and stuff. so yes, at that point, I replaced the global understanding of

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