"Somos el mismo Homo sapiens de hace 200 000 años tratando de ajustarse", con María Martinón-Torres.

Source: https://www.spreaker.com/user/elpodca... We're closing out the season with a scientist, paleoanthropologist María Martinón-Torres, one of the world's leading experts on our most distant European ancestors. But don't think this is just going to be a nice popular science episode about what humans were like and how they lived 200,000 years ago. As she explains, "We are still practically the same Homo sapiens as we were 200,000 years ago. But now we're locked in a gilded cage"... Biologically and anatomically, we are the same as those hunter-gatherer men and women who inhabited the Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago. With one difference: they lived with a very direct connection to the natural world, with a different diet, constantly moving, adapted to a different rhythm... This has many consequences now, and we see them in the conditions and pathologies that we, people of the 21st century, suffer from. Nor should you expect in this episode a discourse on what María, director of the National Research Center for Human Evolution and co-principal investigator of the Atapuerca project, calls paleo-melancholy: “Yes, there is a tendency towards that,” she tells us, “but I wouldn't want to go back to the Late Pleistocene. Perhaps back then we didn't die from certain things, but life expectancy was, at most, 30 or 40 years.” With her, in this episode we will explore many of the questions and answers present in her book, Homo imperfectus: Why do we continue to get sick despite evolution? And understand what we have improved, what we are doing wrong, and what we must change. And a fascinating question: Are we still evolving? Cristina Mitre's podcast is taking a break until September. But I'll be continuing my summer break with the interview series for the special Summer Edition, a new program that will air on Podium Podcast in July and August. Happy summer! La Roche-Posay, our sponsor this month, has been researching photoprotection for decades. Their latest launch is ANTHELIOS UVMUNE 400, a sun care line that the laboratory itself considers its most revolutionary product in 30 years. The key lies in its new, exclusive Mexoryl 400 filter, the first to protect the skin against the most insidious and damaging ultraviolet radiation: the ultra-long UVA rays that compromise the immune system. Just by clicking on the June patron link, you'll help keep this podcast going: https://cutt.ly/oJE5o9e You can subscribe to my new newsletter, "A Micrófono cerrado" (Off the Record), where I share exclusive podcast material, at https://cristinamitre.substack.com/ You can follow me daily on my social media: Instagram @thebeautymail Twitter @cristinamitre YouTube    / cristinamitre   Facebook Cristina Mitre Aranda