Instant Genius is a bite-sized masterclass in podcast form. In this week’s episode, we talk to Dr Brenna Hassett.
She’s an anthropologist and archaeologist at University College London, and author of Growing Up Human (£17.99, Bloomsbury Sigma).
She explains just how weird human childhood is compared to the animal kingdom.
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And if that’s not enough, you can hear even more from Brenna on Instant Genius Extra.
On this subscription-only show, available on Apple Podcasts, we take a deeper dive into the topics covered on Instant Genius. In this episode, Brenna tells us all about childhood in the animal kingdom.
Listen to more episodes of Instant Genius:
- The science of crabs, with Peter Davie
- Meteorites, with Dr Tim Gregory
- Animal senses, with Ed Yong
- Sloths, with Dr Rebecca Cliffe
- Bitcoin, with Brett Scott
- COVID numbers, with Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter