An author of the paper on recent human evolution was interviewed for the last 15 minutes of the first hour of Science Friday. The audio archive will be available soon. Also, I hear that you'll see a new article on this paper in The New York Times this weekend, so check for Nick Wade's byline.
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good shit.
Listened to it yet?
yeah, i listened to it live. as for the cell phone thing, give flatow a break, heez an engineer! :)