Steph Yin
The Pests That Make Us Human
11 November 2014
In our daily lives, when we see a rodent or a bug, we think about how to get rid of it. Pests are associated with filth and disease, so we usually want them as far away from us as possible. In this week's episode we explore two pests--the rat and the fig wasp--to get a more complex picture of the life of a pest. Producer Sophie Rosenmoss guides us through segments by producer Lydia Chain who spoke to Robert Sullivan, author of the book Rats! and Steph Yin's conversation with Eric Gruebel, an anthropology student at the University of Pennsylvania, and Manvir Singh, an evolutionary biology student at Harvard University.
Listen here.
11 November 2014
In our daily lives, when we see a rodent or a bug, we think about how to get rid of it. Pests are associated with filth and disease, so we usually want them as far away from us as possible. In this week's episode we explore two pests--the rat and the fig wasp--to get a more complex picture of the life of a pest. Producer Sophie Rosenmoss guides us through segments by producer Lydia Chain who spoke to Robert Sullivan, author of the book Rats! and Steph Yin's conversation with Eric Gruebel, an anthropology student at the University of Pennsylvania, and Manvir Singh, an evolutionary biology student at Harvard University.
Listen here.