Christina Warinner
Anthropologist | Uncovering Ancient Diets and Human History
Most recently at TED in 2012.
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Christina Warinner is a pioneering anthropologist who uses cutting-edge science to uncover the secrets of ancient human diet and health. As an Assistant Professor at Harvard University, her research has overturned long-held assumptions about our ancestors' lives.
Warinner's work combining archaeology, genetics, and biochemistry has revealed unexpected findings from dental plaque and ancient DNA, revolutionizing our understanding of what people ate thousands of years ago. Her TED Talks have been viewed over 1.
5 million times, inspiring audiences to rethink the past and its connections to the present.
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Tracking ancient diseases using ... plaque
Imagine what we could learn about diseases by studying the history of human disease, from ancient hominids to the present. But how? TED Fellow Christina Warinner is an achaeological geneticist, and she's found a spectacular new tool -- the microbial DNA in fossilized dental plaque.
1 talk, all in 2012
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