Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson review examples of paleoparasitology, the detection of parasites in archaeological material.

Links for this episode: * T. rex had Trichomonas (PLoS One) * King Richard III had worms (CNN) * Discovery of toilets in Japan (Mem Inst Os Cruz) * Paleoparasitology in the Old World (Mem Inst Os Cruz) * Soils from Seoul (J Arachael Sci) * Ancient parasite infections in Old World (pdf) * Ascaris in coprolites (Mem Inst Os Cruz) * Human intestinal parasites in the past (Mem Inst Os Cruz) * Letters read on TWiP 61

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