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The Dissenter · 2025-06-20 · 80 min · 11,166 words

#1113 Vicky Oelze: The Diets of Great Apes, and the Evolution of Human Diets

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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of the Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopez, and today I'm joined by Dr. Vicky Olze. She is an associate professor in the Anthropology Department and director of the Primate Ecology and Molecular Anthropology Lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz. And today we're going to talk mostly about the evolution.

of the human diet or of human diets in the plural. So Vicky, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to have you on. Yeah, thank you, Ricardo, for inviting me. I'm very excited and I'm uh very curious if I can answer like the many questions that you have.

I saw that you you you want to dive into deep time with me. So so let's go. Yeah, sure. So let's start with this. How can we study human diets through archaeological and fossil remains?

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