Origin Stories

A podcast by The Leakey Foundation

86 Episodes

  1. Season 2 Preview

    Published: 8/11/2017
  2. Altruism

    Published: 4/7/2017
  3. Episode 21: Follow the Leader?

    Published: 3/7/2017
  4. Episode 09: Did Cooking Make Us Human? (Re-release)

    Published: 12/31/2016
  5. Episode 20: The Power Paradox - LIVE

    Published: 11/8/2016
  6. Episode 19: Being Human - Born and Evolved to Run

    Published: 10/28/2016
  7. Episode 18: Empathy

    Published: 8/25/2016
  8. Episode 04: How to Document a Society (Re-release)

    Published: 8/13/2016
  9. Episode 17: Being Human - Speaking of Sex

    Published: 7/15/2016
  10. Episode 16: Neanderthals

    Published: 7/1/2016
  11. Episode 15: The Grandmother Hypothesis

    Published: 5/28/2016
  12. Episode 14: Being Human - Why Do We Laugh?

    Published: 5/18/2016
  13. Episode 13: Evolutionary Arms Race

    Published: 4/29/2016
  14. Episode 12: The Origins of Tuberculosis

    Published: 3/25/2016
  15. Episode 11: Face Mites

    Published: 2/25/2016
  16. Episode 10: Being Human with Alison Gopnik

    Published: 1/19/2016
  17. Did Cooking Make Us Human?

    Published: 12/29/2015
  18. Episode 08: Being Human with Robert Sapolsky

    Published: 12/5/2015
  19. Episode 07: The Currant Bush of Life with Bernard Wood

    Published: 11/24/2015
  20. Episode 06: Being a Nice Animal

    Published: 10/27/2015

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Explore human evolution one story at a time. This award-winning show blends storytelling with science that will change your understanding of who we are.