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Dr. Jack Kruse and Andrew Huberman, Ph.D. (Part 1)

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

CHAPTER

The Three Types of Melanin in Humans

The transition from chimp to ape is actually a story about melanin. Melanin, that story goes way far back. Inside the human cochlea, which is shaped as a spiral is what? Melanin. I'm going to tell you that you hear light and we transmit the light into sound. It turns out this is the reason why gentomycin causes hearing loss. Why would that have been important on the planet 4.6 billion years ago? Cosmic radiation got into Earth.

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