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Written by Samia Bouzid https://samiabouzid.com/



Art by the legendary Ettore Mazza: https://www.instagram.com/ettore.mazza/?hl=en



Editing by Andrew Dixon



Title editing by Manuel Rubio



Fact checking by Lucy Timbrell



Thanks to Briana Pobiner and Greg Wilson Mancilla



Huge thanks to Bone Clones for their fantastic skull replicas. Check them out at https://boneclones.com/



Music from Silver Maple, Epidemic Sound and Artlist.
Stock footage from Storyblocks, Artgrid and Shutterstock.



00:00 Introduction
04:40 Why Do We Eat What We Eat?
15:48 What Did We Eat?
25:57 Meat
38:09 Food For Thought



SOURCES:



Intro:
https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/evidence-for-meat-eating-by-early-humans-103874273/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047248415000809
https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/evidence-for-meat-eating-by-early-humans-103874273/
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2020.00025/full
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.210050



Part 1:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2013.0057
https://royalsociety.org/news/2013/ancient-spiral-tooth-shark/
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19043049/



Part 2:
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http://www.nhc.ed.ac.uk/index.php?page=493.166
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7689778/
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https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.210050
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Part 3:
Interview with Briana Pobiner
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4163920/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364661317301122
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047248404001411



Part 4:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0131422
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1117620109
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-05517-3
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4163920/
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24646
https://www.academia.edu/52604508/Climate_and_environmental_reconstruction_of_the_Epipaleolithic_Mediterranean_Levant_22_0_11_9_ka_cal_BP_Langgut_Cheddadi_Sharon_2021_QUATERNARY_SCIENCE_REVIEWS
https://open.oregonstate.education/cultivatedplants/chapter/agriculture/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00438243.2011.624747
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7253633/