Origin Stories Podcast Transcripts
The Leakey Foundation · 94 episodes with transcripts
Explore human evolution one story at a time. This award-winning show blends storytelling with science that will change your understanding of who we are.
Spoken has transcripts of 94 Origin Stories episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from September 29, 2026.
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What Should We Eat? Evolution, Diet, and Health
September 29, 2026
Meredith Johnson (0:03)
This is Origin Stories, the Leakey Foundation podcast. I'm Meredith Johnson. What should we eat? It's a simple but confusing question, and there's a lot of contradictory advice. Should you eat vegan, paleo, low-carb, low-fat, high-protein? Do we avoid saturated fats or put butter in our morning coffee? With so many…
And I really started the book because that's a very modern question that we never evolved to ask, let alone answer. I mean, when I walk into a supermarket, a typical American supermarket has about 40,000 different kinds of food. And a large percentage of those foods are pretty weird foods, right? They've been boxed…
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