#1028 Sergio Almécija - Humans: Perspectives on Our Evolution from World Experts
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Hello everybody, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Sergio Almessira. He is senior research scientist in biological anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History, and today we're focusing on his edited book, Humans Perspectives on our uh on our evolution from world expert.
So Dr. Almecira, welcome to the show. It's a big pleasure to everyone. Thank you, Ricardo, for having me here. So you brought together this very interesting book about basically the opinions of several different people, experts, mostly anthropologists, but also people from other fields as we're going to talk about.
to hear more about their perspectives on certain big questions in human evolution. So uh but tell us a little bit more uh about the history behind it. I mean what is this book really about? Why did you decide to write it? What motivated you, basically?
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