ABOUT THIS EPISODE
This week, we talk about ice-age megafauna, Shamansim, magic, and the scale of ancestral cooperation with Manvir Singh (UC Davis).
More about Manvir:
https://www.manvir.org/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZHpmcFYAAAAJ&hl=en
https://anthropology.ucdavis.edu/people/manvir-singh
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