Dr. Shara Bailey is Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Anthropology at New York University (NYU) and Associated Researcher in the Department of Human Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Thank you to our sponsors for supporting this episode Morgan & Morgan forthepeople.com/gagnon FÜM https://tryfum.com/ Ekster https://www.ekster.com/ Timestamps 00:00 Intro 00:46 Teeth are white fossils 04:39 Neanderthals had better teeth than us 08:19 Early Homos/Neanderthals used tooth picks 09:34 Men’s big mandibles + one diet doesn’t fit everyone 16:08 Milk got additives 18:02 When did Homo Sapiens rock up? 20:33 The Chin defines man + science gets tweaked constantly 26:29 Evolving a big brain 31:45 All the Homos + Neanderthals can talk? 38:58 How do we understand intelligence? 43:00 Human fossils rarer than diamonds 45:48 Evolution isn’t linear + Small brained Hobbits 54:40 4 different forces of Evolution 56:16 SPOILERS - Giants aren’t real, nor is Big Foot :( 01:02:01 Big Foot got no bitches 01:04:46 Primordial soup + simple evolution explanation 01:09:01 Cockroaches, Dragon Flies + Homo Sapiens Supremacy 01:12:00 Humans ability because of fine movement 01:13:57 Better to be a pig satisfied than Socrates dissatisfied 01:16:47 Octopi are self-aware + eating dumb animals 01:18:20 Inheriting useless organs + Being bipedal 01:22:45 Creationism v Evolution is a false debate 01:28:28 Women hunted & were tool makers