What About Science? with Nandita Jayaraj - Neanderthals & Me (EP1) 31st Jan 2023

Neanderthals. Never since dinosaurs has an extinct species caught the fancy of so many. Still, many of us are still in a haze about who Neanderthals were, why they are no longer around, and -- the 10 million Swedish Kronor question -- how similar are they to you and me? On this episode of ‘What About Science?’, journalist and host Nandita Jayaraj catches up with computational geneticist Shweta Ramdas for an illuminating discussion on the many prickly questions complicating the relatively new field of palaeogenetics today. Acknowledgements: Art by Yash Harichandan Nobel Prize Announcement: Swedish researcher Svante Paabo wins Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine for discoveries involving human evolution DW News | YouTube: https://youtu.be/AadfzD7Rrug Audio Used: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24232300-600-does-population-genetics-have-a-racism-problem-even-today/ Further reading: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2022/press-release/ https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1516047113 https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24232300-600-does-population-genetics-have-a-racism-problem-even-today/ https://forbetterscience.com/2020/10/05/dirty-diseased-neanderthals/