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Episode 9: Thyroid Hormones and Human Evolution
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Episode 9: Thyroid Hormones and Human Evolution

From the first ancestor to walk upright to the changes brought on by using fire for cooking meat, human evolution can be explained by shifting thyroid metabolism as diets shifted
Susan Crockford
Nov 30, 2024
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