Welcome back to Sapiens Playground! I know that it has been quite some time since the last episode with a guest, but now I'm back with another fascinating conversation about evolutionary biology with PhD candidate Raphael Sirtoli. He was been engaged in different fields of science and has researched a broad spectrum of different topics, such as cancer, paleoanthropolgy, evolutionary biology and molecular biology. Raphael currently works together with a great team of scientists and doctors in a medical clinic. Hopefully, you will also appreciate his unique approach to looking at things, especially in medicine, physiology and nutrition, through an evolutionary lens. 

We start off by talking about Raphaels story which should once again teach us the lesson that there is probaly so much more in nutrition and health that we are yet to understand and find out and that we ought to be more humble as opposed to jumping to conclusions too quickly, without giving it some thorough thought. 

In the main part of our conversation we mostly spend some time discussing the paper that Rapahel published together with his colleagues Miki Ben-Dor and Ran Barkai some time ago. The name of the paper is "The evolution of the human trophic level during the Pleistocene" and I would definitely highly encourage everyone with some interest in evolutionary biology and the history of human species, to read that piece of work. I promise, that you will extract a lot of value from going through it: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.24247

Before wrapping up with some final questions from my audience, I decided to ask Raphael a few devils-advocate-questions, since this is what science is all about, namely - questioning your own hypotheses and staying skeptical even in regards to your own research. 

Enjoy listening and I am convinced that you will be just as enlightened at the end of the podcast as I felt!

Find Raphael on Twitter: https://twitter.com/raphaels7 @raphaels7

The medical clinic he is working for at the moment: http://Pero.pt

PhD candidate in Health Sciences --> ESR 14 (early stage researcher) in the Marie-Curie European grant system: https://itn-treatment.eu

Writer at https://thepaleodiet.com/author/raphael-sirtoli

The paper by Raphael Sirtoli, Miki Ben-Dor and Ran Barkai: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.24247

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