Sciences & Technology
Untangling our evolutionary history
Forty per cent banana, ninety nine per cent bonobo
While we know our distant relatives include chimps and bonobos, do we really know who our ancestors are?
Published 17 May 2017
Episode 3
In the evolutionary timeline of mammals, homo sapiens have not been around very long. Paleoanthropologist and Miegunyah Fellow at the University of Melbourne Professor Bernard Wood questions how much longer we have, given the environmental decimation humans are causing.
Episode recorded: 6 June 2016
Producers: Dr Andi Horvath and Chris Hatzis Audio engineer: Arch Cuthbertson Editor: Chris Hatzis
Banner image: Pixabay
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