The Insight

By Insitome: Your guide to the story of you

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 May 14, 2020


 Nov 1, 2018

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Where did we come from? One of humanity's most basic questions, the answer is fascinating. Weaving together insights from the fields of genetics, archaeology, linguistics, and paleoanthropology, hosts Spencer Wells and Razib Khan take us on a grand tour of human history. Scientific storytelling at its best.

Episode Date
Brian Hare and Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity
Sep 15, 2020
Why Western Europeans are so WEIRD and why that matters!
Sep 08, 2020
Why much of science is fiction
Sep 03, 2020
Siberian paleohistory
Aug 06, 2020
Sundaland: a human evolutionary hearth
Jul 31, 2020
Peopling the Americas 32,000 years ago
Jul 23, 2020
Ghost in the machine
Jul 16, 2020
Native American admixture into Polynesia!
Jul 09, 2020
Will to Power and the Holocene transition
Jun 26, 2020
Two cultures, humanities and science
Jun 18, 2020
Psychiatry and genes
Jun 11, 2020
American Downfall: Cultural evolution, Peter Turchin, and the return of history
Jun 03, 2020
The genetic basis of facial variation
May 28, 2020
Ancient DNA and China
May 21, 2020
Chris Stringer on paleoanthropology in 2020
May 14, 2020
Genetically Modified Organisms
May 07, 2020
Coronavirus 2020: vaccination and the specter of revolution
May 01, 2020
Alfred Russel Wallace and the Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago
Apr 25, 2020
Genetics, genealogy, and secrets unknown
Apr 22, 2020
Coronavirus 2020: preamble to Weimar?
Apr 16, 2020
Paleogenetics of East Asia
Apr 09, 2020
Coronavirus pandemic of 2020
Mar 31, 2020
Natural Selection among indigenous Americans
Mar 25, 2020
The Importance of Summer
Mar 23, 2020
Genomics of Mendelian Conditions
Mar 19, 2020
Decreasing genetic diversity with distance from Africa
Mar 11, 2020
Ancient Egyptian genetics
Mar 04, 2020
Genetics and (pre)history of Southeast Asia
Feb 26, 2020
Coronavirus and Zoonoses
Feb 19, 2020
Genetics of Fertility
Feb 13, 2020
Genetics of Papuans
Feb 04, 2020
Paleogenetics of Africa
Jan 29, 2020
3000 years in the Levant
Jan 23, 2020
Predictions for genetics in the 2020s
Jan 15, 2020
Ten years of human genetics and evolution
Dec 20, 2019
Scandinavian Genetics
Jun 26, 2019
Tibetan Denisovans
Jun 19, 2019
Obesity and genetic prediction
Jun 12, 2019
Evolution of Family
Jun 05, 2019
Natural Selection and "Deep Learning"
May 29, 2019
Altitude Adaptation and Denisovans
May 22, 2019
Neolithic Massacre
May 15, 2019
The Epigenetics Revolution
May 08, 2019
The $1000 Genome
May 01, 2019
Deconstructing the Denisovans
Apr 24, 2019
The ape that understood the universe
Apr 16, 2019
Solving the Missing Heritability
Apr 10, 2019
The genetic history of Ice Age Europe
Apr 02, 2019
This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution
Mar 27, 2019
Historical Linguistics
Mar 19, 2019
Irish genetics over the past 10,000 years
Mar 13, 2019
Polygenic risk scores and diversity
Mar 07, 2019
Blueprint, a conversation with Robert Plomin
Feb 27, 2019
The Prehistory of the Arabian Peninsula
Feb 20, 2019
Love and biology!
Feb 14, 2019
Is the FBI Watching Your DNA?
Feb 06, 2019
The New York Times takes on Ancient DNA
Jan 30, 2019
Cultural Evolution
Jan 24, 2019
2018 in genomics
Dec 20, 2018
African Genetics
Dec 12, 2018
The Genetics of Game of Thrones
Dec 05, 2018
CRISPR Babies in China: Across the Rubicon
Nov 27, 2018
The genetics of taste
Nov 21, 2018
The genetics of Native Americans
Nov 15, 2018
Halloween genetics: fact or fiction
Oct 31, 2018
Reflections on ASHG 2018
Oct 24, 2018
The Genetics of the Finns
Oct 17, 2018
ANI, ASI, IVC and The Genetics of India
Sep 26, 2018
The Greatest Human Journey
Sep 20, 2018
The Legacy of Cavalli-Sforza
Sep 12, 2018
So you want to be a geneticist…
Aug 16, 2018
MHC and the Genetics of Attraction
Aug 09, 2018
Genetics of Educational Attainment
Jul 25, 2018
The Genetics of China, Han & Beyond
Jul 18, 2018
Violence and Warfare!
Jul 12, 2018
Genetic States of America
Jul 04, 2018
Isolated Populations
Jun 28, 2018
Coffee, Milk & Booze
Jun 20, 2018
Y-chromosomes and the Ascent of Man
Jun 13, 2018
Barbarian Genetics
Jun 06, 2018
She Has Her Mother's Laugh
May 30, 2018
Molecular Population Genetics
May 24, 2018
The Evolutionary Importance of Mothers and Grandmothers
May 09, 2018
The Golden State Killer and the Genetic Panopticon
May 02, 2018
Lee Berger and the Dawn of "Big Data" in Paleoanthropology
Apr 18, 2018
The Genetics of Human Behavior
Apr 12, 2018
Jewish Genetics: The Exodus Comes Full Circle
Apr 04, 2018
Inside Helix
Mar 28, 2018
Multiregionalism is Dead...Long Live Multiregionalism!
Mar 21, 2018
23andMe, the FDA, and Our Genomic Future
Mar 14, 2018
Paradise Lost
Mar 07, 2018
Chris Stringer and The Human Revolution
Feb 28, 2018
Cheddar: More Than A Cheese
Feb 22, 2018
Darwin Day Special: Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?
Feb 15, 2018
Journey of Man Redux
Feb 07, 2018
Ancestry Deconvoluted
Jan 31, 2018
Consumer Genomics Goes Mainstream
Jan 24, 2018
The Indo-European Enigma
Jan 17, 2018
Neander-Me Part 2
Jan 10, 2018
Neander-Me, Part 1
Jan 03, 2018