#129 | The story of our species, admixing, precision medicine & more | Lluís Quintana-Murci
The Insight PodcastShow Notes
Lluís Quintana-Murci is a professor at the College de France in Paris where he holds the Chair of Human Genomics and Evolution. He also directs the Human Evolutionary Genetics Unit at the Institut Pasteur.
I talk to him about:
- The story of homo sapiens' journey out of Africa
- What the study of genetics can teach us about our history
- How mixing with Neanderthals and Denisovans helped us adapt and survive
- What this means for a future of personalised nutrition and precision medicine
- & much more
Connect with Lluís: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lluis-quintana-murci-412b4035/ https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/human-evolutionary-genetics/
"Human Peoples: On the Genetic Traces of Human Evolution, Migration and Adaptation" - https://amzn.eu/d/4HyrxPm
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