Transcript: Interview: Dr. Tim White on the discovery of 160,000-year-old human fossil remains

IRA FLATOW
NPR Talk of the Nation Science Friday
06-13-2003
Interview: Dr. Tim White on the discovery of 160,000-year-old human fossil remains

Host: IRA FLATOW
Time: 3:00-4:00 PM

IRA FLATOW, host:

This is TALK OF THE NATION/SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow.

A little bit later in the hour we'll be talking about animal diseases and human health. But we're going to start off talking about the fossilized skulls of three ancient Ethiopians that are telling us what our early humans might have been like and where they came from.

According to a report in this week's issue of the journal Nature, the skulls are 160,000 years old, meaning that the owners lived at the same time as Neanderthals. But ...

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