SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human
Science:Social Sciences
What does your DNA have to do with who you are? On a journey for answers, SAPIENS hosts Chip Colwell, Jen Shannon, and Esteban Gómez take consumer DNA tests and confront murky, interconnected issues of identity and heredity. Their guides include science journalist Carl Zimmer and anthropologists Deborah Bolnick and Kim TallBear.
Carl Zimmer has authored 13 books about science, including his latest work She Has Her Mother’s Laugh, which traces the history of heredity:
Deborah Bolnick is an incoming associate professor of anthropology at the University of Connecticut. Her research interests include anthropological genetics, ancient DNA studies, paleoepigenetics, and a variety of other related subjects.
Kim TallBear is an associate professor in the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Native Studies. The University of Minnesota Press published her book Native American DNA in 2013.
Learn more about DNA at SAPIENS.org:
I’ve Got the Neanderthal Blues by Emma Marris The Ethical Battle Over Ancient DNA by Michael Balter How Molecular Clocks Are Refining Human Evolution’s Timeline by Bridget Alex and Priya MoorjaniAll music is produced and designed by Matthew Simonson and our illustration is by David Williams.
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