225 - Holiday Magic and Belief

On today’s episode: We may have gotten all of our Neanderthal DNA from a single, short-lived rendezvous. And we look into the psychology of holiday beliefs. All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Studies pin down exactly when humans and Neanderthals swapped DNA
• https://liberalarts.mercer.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/07/SharonTWoolleyJD2004.pdf
• https://uva.theopenscholar.com/files/early-development-lab/files/the_effect_of_realistic_8.pdf?preview=true
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9418217/
• https://www.jstor.org/stable/1132284
• https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2024-25574-001.pdf

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady 

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL

http://andrewallenmusic.com

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