Kermit Pattison is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, GQ, Fast Company, Runners World, and many other publications. His new book, Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind, is available now. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/fossil-men-kermit-pattison?variant=32117911748642
Welcome. Thanks for doing this man. I really appreciate it. I'm very very fascinated by
this subject. Well thank you for having me. It's great to be here. So this is a this is a long
journey for you to have written this book and being to be involved in this project. Can you
talk us through how you got involved in this? Sure. It was completely unintentional. I had started off
working on a different book on the evolution of human locomotion and I mean just as an aside
humans are weird primates in a lot of ways but one way we're weird is just we we're slow we're weak
but we have this ability to walk and run long distances which is kind of unique. So I thought
okay I mean I'm not certainly a lot of other people have noted that before but as far as I
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