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Honey: The Sweet Secret to Evolution (Rebroadcast)

The Hazda people really, really love honey.  The hunter-gatherer tribe from Tanzania loves it so much, that the men will risk death for it - climbing 30-foot high trees, smoking bees out of their hives, then pulling out chunks of honeycomb with their bare hands.  UNLV anthropologist Alyssa Crittenden worked with them for eight years - and found surprising news about how important honey is to our own diet, and how it even shaped our evolution as human beings.  Originally aired 3/5/12.

 

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Alyssa Crittenden, visiting assistant professor, Dept of Anthropology, UNLV

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