Special: People Eating People

A Smithsonian researcher has made a discovery we couldn't wait to sink our teeth into—what might be the earliest evidence of our human ancestors eating each other. This conversation is a special update from our past episode "Did Meat Make Us Human?" Bon appétit!

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Guests:
Briana Pobiner, paleoanthropologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Smithsonian Links:

• Learn more about our early ancestors with Human Origins Initiative at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
  • Explore an interactive species timeline
  • View the digital collections
  • Take a narrated virtual tour through the museum’s Hall of Human Origins
  • Hear conversations in the HOT (Human Origins Today) Topics series
• Explore the daily lives (and eating habits) of some of the primate species residing at the Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park and Conservation Biology Institute. The zoo’s latest #GorillaStory update features Moke, a rambunctious four-year-old who keeps his entire troop on their toes.