SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human

A podcast by SAPIENS

81 Episodes

  1. How Belonging Shapes the Vaccination Crisis

    Published: 11/5/2019
  2. The Deep Roots of Navajo Country Music

    Published: 10/22/2019
  3. Are Colors Universal?

    Published: 10/8/2019
  4. Stringing Together an Ancient Empire’s Stories

    Published: 9/24/2019
  5. Do You Dream What I Dream?

    Published: 9/10/2019
  6. What to Expect When You’re Not Expecting Down Syndrome

    Published: 8/27/2019
  7. Where Have All the Denisovans Gone?

    Published: 8/13/2019
  8. Eating Insects and the Yuck Factor

    Published: 7/30/2019
  9. Season 2 is Coming Soon and We Want to Hear From You

    Published: 7/16/2019
  10. Being Afghan in America: In the Field with Morwari Zafar

    Published: 12/18/2018
  11. What’s the Cost of Quinoa?

    Published: 12/4/2018
  12. How to Care for the Dead

    Published: 11/20/2018
  13. BONUS: A Conversation with Carl Zimmer about DNA, Identity, and Heredity

    Published: 11/13/2018
  14. Is Space a Human Place?

    Published: 11/6/2018
  15. Power Players: US Football and French Rugby

    Published: 10/23/2018
  16. Close to Home: In the Field With Amy Starecheski

    Published: 10/9/2018
  17. The Mastodon in the Room

    Published: 9/25/2018
  18. Prepping for TEOTWAWKI

    Published: 9/12/2018
  19. Is Robot Empathy a Trap?

    Published: 8/28/2018
  20. Is Your DNA You?

    Published: 8/14/2018

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What makes you … you? And who tells what stories and why? In the fifth season of the SAPIENS podcast, listeners will hear a range of human stories: from the origins of the chili pepper to how prosecutors decide someone is a criminal to stolen skulls from Iceland. Join Season 5’s host, Eshe Lewis, on our latest journey to explore what it means to be human. SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human, is produced by House of Pod and supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation. SAPIENS is part of the American Anthropological Association Podcast Library. For more information, visit sapiens.org