DiscoverContributor Podcast: Barry MurphySaturday Morning with Kim Hill: Alan Cooper: exploring human history, Segment 1
Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: Alan Cooper: exploring human history, Segment 1

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: Alan Cooper: exploring human history, Segment 1

Update: 2014-11-06
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In a wide-ranging interview Alan Cooper explains his current project to study ancient micro biomes and mitochondrial DNA from a huge collection of hair samples to create a map of pre-colonial indigenous Australia, and touches on the evolutionary detriment of the development of agriculture, US sugar subsidies, the spread of bacteria from oral infections to other parts of our bodies, food allergies, ancient and modern global climate change, palaeontology and scientific research funding strategies.
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Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: Alan Cooper: exploring human history, Segment 1

Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: Alan Cooper: exploring human history, Segment 1

Barry Murphy