Dr. M’s Women and Children First Podcast #45 – Briana Pobiner PhD– Origins of Human Meat Consumption –

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Briana Pobiner PhD

This weeks visitor is tremendous attention-grabbing. Briana Pobiner is a paleoanthropologist whose analysis facilities on the evolution of human weight-reduction plan with a concentrate on meat-eating. Briana has a BA from Bryn Mawr Faculty, the place she created her personal main known as Evolutionary Research. Then she accomplished a Masters diploma adopted by her PhD in Anthropology from Rutgers College. Briana can also be an Affiliate Analysis Professor of Anthropology within the Middle for the Superior Examine of Human Paleobiology on the George Washington College.

She has achieved fieldwork in Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, and Indonesia and has been supported in her analysis by the Nationwide Geographic Society, the Nationwide Science Basis and the Society for American Archaeology. We focus on a few of her favourite area moments together with a run in with a white rhino in addition to discovering fossil bones that have been final touched, butchered and eaten by considered one of her 1.5-million-year-old ancestors. Since becoming a member of the Smithsonian in 2005 to assist put collectively the Corridor of Human Origins, along with persevering with her lively area, laboratory, and experimental analysis applications, she leads the Human Origins Program’s schooling and outreach efforts which incorporates managing the Human Origins Program’s public applications, web site content material, social media, and exhibition volunteer coaching. Briana has additionally extra just lately developed a analysis program in evolution schooling and science communication. She is the recipient of the 2021 American Affiliation of Organic Anthropologists and Leakey Basis Communication and Outreach Award in Honor of Camilla Smith, and a 2021 Nationwide Middle for Science Training Good friend of Darwin award.

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