It's the 150th anniversary of Darwin's descent of man and I was delighted to sit down with Jeremy DeSilva who has recently edited and written the preface for a book entitled 'A most interesting problem: what Darwin's descent of man got right and wrong about human evolution.' The book is a veritable whose who of eminent experts in human prehistory and evolution, with each contributor hand picked to tackle a chapter from The Descent of Man that fits their area of specialism.

Jeremy is a Paleoanthropologist from specializing in the locomotion of the first apes (hominoids) and early human ancestors (hominins). He is also a great sport for putting up with many of my ridiculous questions! As always, it was a real pleasure and privilege to talk to and learn from someone with so much knowledge elements of the human story.

We discussed the book and his contribution, as well as brief outline of some of the areas where Darwin was spookily on point and others where he let himself down quite a bit. We also spoke about his fascinating work on the evolution of the human foot hominin and hominid bi-pedalism and various other wonderful tangents such as prehistoric bunions and a healed Australopithecus bone that shows the level of social care and support they may have been capable of.

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