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Podcast: Curiosity Weekly
Episode: Your Ancestors May Influence Your Work Hours, Coral Reproduced in Captivity, and the First Known Water-Dwelling Dinosaur
Description: Learn about how your ancestors’ work habits might be influencing your own; the first evidence of an underwater dinosaur; and how an aquarium successfully reproduced coral in captivity for the first time.
Societies with a history of hard farming labor tend to work more hours today by Kelsey Donk
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