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Episodes (106)

Oct 16, 2025 Unburied S2E4: The Myth of the Explorer
Oct 9, 2025 Unburied S2E3: The Dark Side of Dart
Oct 2, 2025 Unburied S2E2: Pride and Prejudice

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Oct 16, 2025
41 minutes
37 MB

Whips, fedoras and cliff-hangers make for great cinema, but they also shape how we tell real scientific stories. In our Season 2 finale, we trace the “explorer” myth from colonial expansion to modern paleoanthropology: why lone-hero narratives persist, how they erase teams and communities, and what that means for places like Taung. We meet artists, chiefs, and scientists re-centering local voices; unpack how discoveries get narrated (and who gets credit); and ask what inclusive science looks like on the ground. This episode was produced in partnership with The Human Evolution Research Institute (HERI) and the University of Cape...

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Unburied S2E4: The Myth of the Explorer

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