An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans

Episode 80: Gettin’ Corny! The Amazing History of Maize.

August 30, 2025·1h 31m
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To celebrate their 80th episode, The Two Humans get a belly full of corn (and we’re not talkin’ about moonshine)! Episode 80: Gettin’ Corny! The Amazing History of Maize. An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human. http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 IG @introtoanthrowith2humans Merch: www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=136195011 Resources: Bailey, Flora L. 1940   Navaho Foods and Cooking Methods. American Anthropologist, Vol. 42(2), pp. 270-290.   Biography 2019   Orville Redenbacher. Biography, April 16, 2019, www.biography.com/business-leaders/orville-redenbacher.   Castetter, Edward F. and Willis H. Bell 1942   Pima and Papago Indian Agriculture. The University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.    Christensen, Clyde M. and Henry H. Kaufman 1969   Grain Storage: The Role of Fungi in Quality Loss. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN.   Cleveland Clinic 2025   Pellagra. Cleveland Clinic [website], my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/ 23905-pellagra.   Cordell, Linda S., H. Wolcott Toll, Mollie S. Toll, and Thomas C. Windes  2008   Archaeological Corn from Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico: Dates, Contexts, Sources. American Antiquity 73(3), pp. 491–511.   Czerwony, Beth 2021   Why Can You See Corn in Your Poop? Cleveland Clinic (website), June 24, 2021, health.clevelandclinic.org/why-can-you-see-corn-in-poop.   Dappen, Nathan and Neil Losin (Directors) 2015   Popped Secret: The Mysterious Origin of Corn [Video]. HHMI Biointeractive, www.biointeractive.org/classroom-resources/popped-secret-mysterious-origin-corn.   Davidson, Alan 2002   The Penguin Companion to Food. Penguin Books, London, UK.   Devor, E. J. and Linda S. Cordell 1981   Neural-Tube Defects in a Pre-Historic South-Western Indian Population. Annals of Human Biology, 8(1), pp. 65–75.   Dickerson, George 1992   A Small-Scale Agriculture Alternative: Specialty Corns. United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC, June 1992.      Fine Dining Lovers Editorial Staff 2023   What Huitlacoche Is and How to Eat It. Fine Dining Lovers (website), March 31, 2023, www.finedininglovers.com/explore/articles/what-huitlacoche-and-how-eat-it.   Fussell, Betty 1992   The Story of Corn. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM.   Galinat, Walton C. 1988   The Origin of Corn. Corn and Corn Improvement, Third Edition (ed. G. F. Sprague and J. W. Dudley, American Society of Agronomy, Inc., Madison, WI, pp. 1-31.   Huff, Leah Alexandra 2006   Sacred Sustenance: Maize, Storytelling, and a Maya Sense of Place. Journal of Latin American Geography, 2006, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2006), pp. 79-96.     Hussein, Hussein S. and Jeffrey M. Brasel  2001   Toxicity, Metabolism, and Impact of Mycotoxins on Humans and Animals. Toxicology, Vol. 167, pp. 101–134.   Juárez-Montiel, Margarita, Sandra Ruiloba de León, Griselda Chávez-Camarillo, César Hernández-Rodríguez, and Lourdes V

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