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Jono Tuke is an ex-vet and now a statistician at ACEMS. His area of focus is applied statistics covering such diverse topics as medical statistics, social networks and ancient DNA. He is passionate about trying to convince everyone that statistics can be done and should be done by everyone.

In this episode, Jono explains distances and how they can be used in places you had no idea they could be, and then he chats with Ben Rohrlach on how DNA was used to confirm the connection to country of Australian aboriginals.

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