#1038 Briana Pobiner: The Evolution of the Human Diet
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. Today I'm joined by Dr. Brianna Pobiner. She is a paleoanthropologist and educator at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in the US. Her research centers on the evolution of human diet, and today we're talking mostly about that, but we'll also get into
the diet of some other closely related species like chimpanzees. And toward the end, we're going to talk a little bit about some of the bigger challenges of teaching human evolution. So Dr. Pubiner, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to have you one.
Oh, thank you for inviting me. Okay, so before we get into our diet and chimpanzee diet and the diet of possibly other ominants, let me just ask you, how can we study the diet of species from the past, species who are already extinct? What are perhaps some of the main tools that we have at our disposal and then the kinds of sources we can draw evidence from? Yeah, so there's a the the cool thing in my thinking about studying diets is there's a lot of different lines of evidence. So you can have what archaeologists often study is almost the trash and things that are kind of left over after humans, modern humans and their ancient relatives and cousins ate things.
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