Podcast: The effects of Neandertal DNA on health, squishing bugs for science, and sleepy confessions - podcast episode cover

Podcast: The effects of Neandertal DNA on health, squishing bugs for science, and sleepy confessions

Feb 11, 201622 minTranscript available on Metacast
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Online news editor David Grimm shares stories on confessions extracted from sleepy people, malaria hiding out in deer, and making squishable bots based on cockroaches. Corinne Simonti joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss whether Neandertal DNA in the human genome is helping or hurting. Read the related research in Science. [Image: Tom Libby, Kaushik Jayaram and Pauline Jennings. Courtesy of PolyPEDAL Lab UC Berkeley.] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices