Ryan Bridge: Congratulations to the redheads

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Apr 15, 2026 · 2m · transcript

A special good morning to all the redheads listening.

There's some new Harvard research that's come out about human evolution and it mentions you. I'll get to you in a sec.

Conventional wisdom says that homo sapiens (us) basically stopped evolving when we emerged 300,000 years ago. We reached peak human.

It took us about seven million years to evolve from looking more like Apes. It took us four million years to walk on two legs, which is one of things that makes humans. More recently we learnt how to use tools, language.

But once we stopped hunter-gathering, roaming round looking for food…