<p>An excerpt from Spencer's book Pandora's Seed about the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia in 1815.</p>

Natural Selection among indigenous Americans

Where did we come from?  One of humanity's most basic questions, the answer is fascinating.  Weaving together insights from the fields of genetics, archaeology, linguistics, and paleoanthropology, hosts Spencer Wells and Razib Khan take us on a grand tour of human history.  Scientific storytelling at its best.