Name: You Are What You Cook by SciFri in Sept 2019
Duration: 17 min 29 s
Description: How cooking your food changes your microbiome—and what that could say about human evolution.

Sept 2019

Ryan Rykaczewski describes one of the most massive migrations on the planet, driven by the sun. Image by Tintinnidguy (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons 

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How cooking your food changes your microbiome—and what that could say about human evolution.

You Are What You Cook

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You Are What You Cook

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