Origin Stories is The Leakey Foundation’s podcast about how we became human.

Several decades ago, radio producer Scott Carrier and his brother Dave tried to chase down an antelope on foot.

Humans evolved over millions of years into the creatures we are today. What will we be like in the next million years?

Neil Shubin reveals how he discovered Tiktaalik — a long-sought fossil link between swimming fish and walking land animals — and shares other remarkable tales about life’s evolution.

We explore the history of Homo Sapiens and who (or what) might eventually replace us as kings of the forest.

Geologist, paleontologist, and author Dr. Don Prothero joins us to talk evolution, creationism and Big Foot!

Short Wave reporter Emily Kwong talks with primatologist Adriano Lameira about a growing body of evidence that humans may not be the only great apes with voice control.

How did humans evolve some key cooperative behaviors like sharing?

By solving a logic puzzle, students will learn about the speciation of the Galápagos mockingbirds, a group of birds which heavily influenced Darwin’s grand idea of evolution through natural selection.

How much has the human brain changed from the brains of our ancient ancestors? Evolutionary psychologists think that the modern human brain has not changed much over the past 50,000 years, but other scientists disagree.