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Why Am I Like This?

Can We Change Our Body Type?

Being a human can be weird. Even when everything is "normal" (whatever that means), you might not always get what your body is doing…or why. Dr. Tina Lasisi, full-time biological anthropologist and part-time human, is here to help you make sense of how and why our bodies do what they do.

Can We Change Our Body Type?

Why Am I Like This? Episode 7 | 12m 13s | CC

Have you ever wished to walked through a machine and change your body completely at a push of a button? Is this dystopian or can we really change our bodies? In this episode, Dr. Tina Lasisi walks us through the types of muscles we can change in our body, hormones that affect our height, and dispel the myth that we are "built different" across races.

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Funding for WHY AM I LIKE THIS is provided by the National Science Foundation.

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