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The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss

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Exploring Social Contagion and Microbiome Research in Honduras

This chapter explores a decade-long research project in Honduras with 30,000 participants from 176 villages, focusing on social contagion through innovative experiments. It also discusses the challenges of collecting biological samples for genetic sequencing to understand the microbiome's spread within social networks.

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