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The Two People We're All Related To (Original Post) Uncle Joe Oct 2021 OP
Interesting. JudyM Oct 2021 #1
Bookmarked for when I have more time. Fascinating stuff! n/t CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2021 #2
DNA is without doubt the most powerful stopdiggin Oct 2021 #3
Fascinating, but . . . madamesilverspurs Oct 2021 #4
There is ! OnDoutside Oct 2021 #5
I didn't know that! Ohio Dem Oct 2021 #7
No problems at all ! OnDoutside Oct 2021 #8
Learn something new every day! madamesilverspurs Oct 2021 #9
No problems. Actually on some podcasts platforms like Stitcher, OnDoutside Oct 2021 #11
This message was self-deleted by its author OnDoutside Oct 2021 #6
I often have the same problem Random Boomer Oct 2021 #10

stopdiggin

(11,248 posts)
3. DNA is without doubt the most powerful
Sun Oct 10, 2021, 01:29 PM
Oct 2021

investigative tool we've ever come up with. Anthropology (as just one discipline) has been shaken, and will continue to shake, like a pea in a whistle. It's all quite dizzying - and glorious!

(next up - how disease process, and social and environmental pressures, have interacted with human evolution hand in hand down through our history

madamesilverspurs

(15,799 posts)
4. Fascinating, but . . .
Sun Oct 10, 2021, 01:43 PM
Oct 2021

I don't listen nearly as fast as he talks, wish there was some way to slow it down a bit. I was concentrating more on keeping up instead of on the content, if that makes any sense.


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OnDoutside

(19,948 posts)
11. No problems. Actually on some podcasts platforms like Stitcher,
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 02:20 AM
Oct 2021

I put the podcasts to 1.25x speed, which helps get through them quicker.

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Random Boomer

(4,167 posts)
10. I often have the same problem
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 12:39 AM
Oct 2021

In fact, I wonder if they artificially compress the audio on these videos to make it go faster.

But as several people have pointed out, you can slow the playback speed, which I often do for documentaries of this type.

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