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The Risky Paleo Diets of Our Ancestors
Season 3
Episode 4
We can track our history of eating just about anything back through the fossil record and see the impact it’s had on our evolution. Throughout time, part of the secret to our success as a species has been our early - and sometimes fatal - experimentation with food.
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