Evolution Soup

Were We Scavengers? Meat-Eating & Human Evolution ~ with Professor BRIANA POBINER

October 07, 2020 Briana Pobiner @HumanOrigins Season 3 Episode 10
Evolution Soup
Were We Scavengers? Meat-Eating & Human Evolution ~ with Professor BRIANA POBINER
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BRIANA POBINER is a Research Scientist and Museum Educator in the Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian Institution and her fields of interest include paleoanthropology and the evolution of the human diet.

MARK from Evolution Soup talks to Briana about the impact of meat-eating on human evolution and brain growth over time. We also explore how hominids obtained their meat. Were our ancestors all gung-ho hunters, or did we scavenge as well?

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LINK TO ORIGINAL VIDEO INTERVIEW: https://youtu.be/80mwdRtDIjo


LINKS:

Twitter: @HumanOrigins

Site: https://humanorigins.si.edu/about/human-origins-program-team/briana-pobiner


Smithsonian:

Site: https://www.si.edu/

Instagram /Twitter: @smithsonian


ALSO:

Inside The Rising Star Cave: https://www.shorturl.at/lENQZ



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Your research has taken you to all kinds of far-flung places!
What first got you interested in the story of the human diet?
So how can we determine what a particular hominid ate?
Would you say that the consumption of meat led to the evolution of larger brains?
Both Homo naledi & Homo floresiensis were relatively recent hominid species who probably ate meat
What did evolution come up with to satisfy our increasingly demanding brain?
Could our ancestors have been scavenging as well?
What research projects have got waiting in the near future?