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Protecting Yourself from Hearing Loss (w/ David Owen) and Why Woolly Mammoths Went Extinct
Learn about some of the most common causes for hearing loss and how you can protect your ears from them, from author David Owen. You’ll also learn about how woolly mammoth DNA has given us new insight into what made them go extinct.
Additional resources from David Owen:
- Part 1 of our interview https://curiositydaily.com/its-never-too-early-to-protect-your-hearing-w-david-owen-and-why-you-should-work-in-90-minute-spurts/
- Pick up “Volume Control: Hearing in a Deafening World” on Amazon https://amazon.com
- Additional publications by David Owen https://amazon.com
- Official website https://www.davidowen.net/
- Articles by David Owen in The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/david-owen
Mammoth DNA gives clues as to what wiped them out by Grant Currin
- Study resurrects mammoth DNA to explore the cause of their extinction. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/oupu-srm020720.php
- Fry, E., Kim, S. K., Chigurapti, S., Mika, K. M., Ratan, A., Dammermann, A., Mitchell, B. J., Miller, W., & Lynch, V. J. (2020). Functional architecture of deleterious genetic variants in the genome of a Wrangel Island mammoth. Genome Biology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evz279
- Timeline of the human condition. (2016). Southampton.ac.uk. http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~cpd/history.html
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