Andrea Wulf

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625 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 8 Jun

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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 356 | Andrea Wulf on Enlightenment, Nature, Romanticism, and Modernity · 8 Jun 2026 podcast

I mean, it must have been absolutely horrendous.

But then they go New Zealand,

Tahiti, Tonga, Vanuatu, Acapulco, the Marquesas, Easter Island.

They go back and forth.

So they go three times back to Antarctica.

So they're really zigzagging through the South Pacific.

And they go to several places several times.

So they get to know the people who live there.

So, for example, they go three times to Queen Charlotte Sound, which is at the northern tip of the South Island of New Zealand.

And so they... And they spent weeks and weeks there.

So it's not just a quick stop because they have to repair the ship.

So they really get to know the people.

And because George is so...

linguistically talented he kind of picks up words and languages although he always says like you know i don't understand everything i don't understand their kind of form of government for example you know because i don't understand enough but there's a there's a great open-mindedness um which i think allows him to approach this differently and then because you like ideas um he is this

prescient scientist who looks, A, by comparing the different languages across the South Pacific and the distribution of breadfruit trees, he works out roughly the route of Polynesian migration 200 years before DNA analysis and archaeological studies prove it.

And I think it's just extraordinary.

So the breadfruit tree, for example, which he loves eating because that's one of the kind of the food staples in Tahiti, for example.

But he notices that they don't have any seeds.

Now, because they don't have seeds, he knows that they can only be cultivated by humans.

But he wonders, you know, where do they originally come from?

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