Evolving Our Understanding of Our Skin’s Evolution

30/08/2021 42 min Temporada 1 Episodio 3
Evolving Our Understanding of Our Skin’s Evolution

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Recent Penn State graduate Amy Mook interviews Nina Jablonski about her ground-breaking research into the evolution of skin pigmentation, and the promise of that research to help to heal the damage inflicted over generations through misguided racist constructs perpetuated by the scientific establishment of the past.   HOST:Amy Mook, 2020 graduate of Penn State’s Genetics and Developmental Biology programGUESTS:Dr. Nina Jablonski, Evan Pugh Professor of Anthropology, Penn State Co-director of the Center for Human Evolution and Diversity