#1163 Herman Pontzer: How to Understand Human Biological Variation: "Race", Height, Gender, and More
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of the Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Erman Pontzer. He is professor of evolutionary anthropology and global health at the Global Health Institute at Duke University. And today we're talking about his book, Adaptable, How Your Unique Body Really Works and Why Our Biology Unites.
So, Dr. Ponzer, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one. Thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here.
So in the book you talk a lot about biological diversity, specifically in humans and where it stems from. So uh tell us first about that. Where does biological diversity in humans stem from and why do you think it is important to consider it? Yeah, so uh, you know, it's the standard nature and nurture uh story, but I think it's one that we don't tell in the right way and we kind of, you know, sort of don't don't do it well. And so uh, you know, the reason that we're all unique biologically uh is that first of all, we've all got our own unique set of
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