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The Constant: Swimming in the Deep Blue of Business, Technology and Culture

The Constant: Swimming in the Deep Blue of Business, Technology and Culture

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The Constant Podcast: Swimming in the Deep Blue of Business, Technology and Culture brings together a global cast of industry and science leaders and pioneers from Silicon Valley and Madison Avenue. They showcase a unique shared acumen in the social and biological sciences, the intimate knowledge of how our complex world works in practice and an occasional dash of science fiction, spirituality and storytelling to debate hot topics in business, technology, science and culture.

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Episodes
  • E4.Shi Huang and a New Paradigm in Evolutionary Genetics
    Jul 13 2025

    The Constant Podcast host, Dr. German Dziebel, and Professor Shi Huang are discussing Huang's Maximum Genetic Diversity Theory and the Out-of-Asia theory of modern human origins and their advantages over the mainstream Neutral Theory and the Out-of-Africa model. From Theodosius Dobzhansky and Luca L. Cavalli-Sforza to the Pongid clade and owl monkeys, from uniparental and autosomal markers and convergence vs. shared descent in genetics, Shi Huang and German Dziebel cover a vast range of issues to challenge dominant paradigms and rejuvenate the debate around human evolution.

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • E3. The Out-of-America Theory of Human Origins
    May 28 2025

    Dr. German Dziebel and Alvah Hicks discuss human origins research (archaeology, genetics, linguistics and kinship studies) and outline the innovative Out-of-America theory which celebrates creative, out-of-the-box, non-trivial thinking that Silicon Valley is known for in the technology world but that the science of human origins and dispersals has historically shunned away from.

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • E2.The Use of AI in Law Enforcement and Dire Wolf De-Extinction News
    May 20 2025

    Stanford alumni and industry leaders Brad Davidson, Andrey Kunov, German Dziebel and Kapa Lenkov discuss progress in traffic control technologies, the use of AI in law enforcement and prevention, the new approaches to solving "cold cases" using DNA and genealogical databases, the de-extinction of the sire wolf and the work that Colossal Biosciences is doing to create an artificial womb.

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    51 mins
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