All Episodes
Origin Stories — 93 episodes
The Not So Naked Ape: The Origins of Clothing
Biruté Mary Galdikas - A Life Among Orangutans
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Origin Stories x The Science Podcast
Can a Human Outrun a Horse?
The Origin Story of Origin Stories - 10th Anniversary
The Shanidar Cave Neanderthals
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Lucy
Ape Medicine
The First Story
Understanding Neanderthals
The Story of Human Hair
The Musical Ape
Custodian of the Ancestors
A Brief History of Bling
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Siblings
Fatherhood
Motherhood
Boomplaas Cave - Bonus Interview
Field School Diaries
The Hobbit
A Giganto Mystery
The New Metabolism
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Origin Stories is back!
First Steps at Laetoli
Discovering Us
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Episode 58: Biruté Mary Galdikas - 50 Years with Orangutans
Entre Chien et Loup: How Dogs Began
Bonus Episode: Short and Sweat
Episode 55: Monkeys Get Creative
Episode 54: The Obstetrical Dilemma
Sleep and the Moon
How to Study an Endangered Species
Episode 51: The Teeth Remember
Episode 50: Understanding Neanderthals
Episode 49: Exercise
Episode 48: Ancestor (rerelease)
Episode 47: Skin
Episode 46: Interview with María Martinón-Torres
Episode 45: Detective of the Dead
Episode 44: Custodian of the Ancestors
We Eat Bugs
Episode 42: The Cave Punan
Episode 41: Tribes Old and New
Episode 40: The Denisovans
Piltdown Man
Episode 38: From the Archive - Louis Leakey
Episode 37: From the Archive - Mary Leakey
Episode 36: From the Archive - Tepilit Ole Saitoti
Episode 35: From the Archive - Raymond Dart
Episode 34: From the Archive - Margaret Mead
Episode 33: From the Archive - Dian Fossey
Episode 32: From the Archive - Carl Sagan
Episode 31: The Four Year War
Origin Stories Season Three Preview
Episode 28: What They Left Behind [Rebroadcast]
Episode 30: Tales From the Field [LIVE]
Episode 29: Rewriting Our Story
Episode 28: What They Left Behind
Episode 27: Out of Eden the Long Way
Episode 26: Rising Star
Episode 25: Stones and How to Use Them
Episode 24: Ancestor
Season 2 Preview
Altruism
Episode 21: Follow the Leader?
Episode 09: Did Cooking Make Us Human? (Re-release)
Episode 20: The Power Paradox - LIVE
Episode 19: Being Human - Born and Evolved to Run
Episode 18: Empathy
Episode 04: How to Document a Society (Re-release)
Episode 17: Being Human - Speaking of Sex
Episode 16: Neanderthals
Episode 15: The Grandmother Hypothesis
Episode 14: Being Human - Why Do We Laugh?
Episode 13: Evolutionary Arms Race
Episode 12: The Origins of Tuberculosis
Episode 11: Face Mites
Episode 10: Being Human with Alison Gopnik
Did Cooking Make Us Human?
Episode 08: Being Human with Robert Sapolsky
Episode 07: The Currant Bush of Life with Bernard Wood
Episode 06: Being a Nice Animal
Episode 05: Discovery at Ledi-Geraru
Episode 04: How to Document a Society
Episode 03: Jane Goodall
Episode 02: Why Do We Get Hiccups?
On Two Feet
Intro to Origin Stories