Desktop Diaries: Tim White
5:48 minutes
“People get really interested in learning about where they came from. It’s genealogy writ large,” says paleoanthropologist Tim White about evolutionary history. When White isn’t hunting for remains of our human ancestors in Africa, he’s stationed in his museum-like office at the University of California, Berkeley, where he’s director of the Human Evolution Research Center.
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Flora Lichtman
Flora Lichtman is a host of Science Friday. In a previous life, she lived on a research ship where apertivi were served on the top deck, hoisted there via pulley by the ship’s chef.
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About Flora Lichtman
Flora Lichtman is a host of Science Friday. In a previous life, she lived on a research ship where apertivi were served on the top deck, hoisted there via pulley by the ship’s chef.