Grab your lunch and join paleoanthropologist Isaiah Nengo as he discusses ape evolution, an update from his field site in Naputdet in Kenya, and hear about his new project looking at how plate tectonics and climate shaped the evolution of Miocene animals in this episode of Lunch Break Science.

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