Welcome to Scientific American’s Science Talk, posted on August 10, 2019. I’m Steve Mirsky. On this episode:

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That’s David Epstein. He was on the podcast in 2016 to talk about his book The Sports Gene. He new book is Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. I was in Washington, D.C., recently, where Epstein lives, and he was kind enough to meet me to talk about the book.

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