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On Humans — 112 episodes
Beyond Paleo: A Culinary History of Humanity ~ Daniel Lieberman
When Did Globalisation Really Begin? ~ Valerie Hansen
The Why of War and the How of Peace, Part II: Lessons from Prehistory ~ Douglas P. Fry
The Why of War and the How of Peace, Part I: Lessons from the Modern World ~ Douglas P. Fry
The Big Picture: Measuring the Origins of the Modern World ~ Bishnupriya Gupta & Stephen Broadberry (Great Divergence #5)
A View From the East: China, Japan, and the Other Paths to Prosperity ~ Debin Ma (Great Divergence #4)
Why Did the Industrial Revolution Happen in Britain? ~ Robert Allen (Great Divergence #3)
Why Did So Many Inventions Come from Europe? ~ Joel Mokyr (Great Divergence #2)
Why the West? Colonies, Fossil Fuels, and Lessons from China ~ Kenneth Pomeranz (Great Divergence #1)
Encore: Walking Towards the Human Condition (with Jeremy De Silva)
Where Did Humans Evolve? Gazing at the Changing Nature of the Garden of Eden ~ Denise Su
The Original Affluent Society? Lessons from 60-Years of "Man the Hunter" Research ~ Richard B. Lee
What Can Shamans Teach Us About Religion? | Many Minds with Manvir Singh
The Origins of Humankind: Where Do We Really Come From?
Why Do We Laugh? Philosophers on Jokes, Humor, and the Human Condition ~ Mira Magdalena Sickinger
Restless Humanity: The Epic Migrations Into the Americas, Polynesia, and... Beyond? ~ Andrés Moreno-Estrada
Beyond Race: A New Outlook on the Shape of Humanity ~ Diyendo Massilani
The Neanderthal Mirror: Latest Findings About the Lines Between Us ~ David Gokhman
Can We Tell a (True) Story of Human Origins? Live from UC San Diego
Epilogue: Is the Brain Free to Choose? ~ Tim Coulson
Can the Brain Understand Itself? The Glories and the Limits of Neuroscience ~ Matthew Cobb
From Alcohol to Antidepressants: What Drugs Teach Us About Brain Chemistry ~ Judy Grisel
Inside the Brain: A Journey Through the Halls and the Songs of Consciousness ~ Pria Anand
Not So Simple After All? Apes, Einstein, and the Many Mysteries of the Human Brain ~ Dean Falk
Prologue: The (Very Simple) Story of the Human Brain ~ Suzana Herculano-Houzel
The Great Question of History: India, Britain, and the Fates of Nations | Live at the British Academy
Encore | Why Agriculture? Climate Change and the Origins of Farming ~ Andrea Matranga
Climate, Water, and the Origins of Colonialism ~ Tirthankar Roy
How Climate Crafted Humanity (Or Did It?) ~ Jessica Thompson
An Essential Difference? Males, Females, and the Spaces In Between ~ Augustín Fuentes
The Rest is History: From the Origins of Farming to the Dawn of Modernity ~ Johannes Krause
A Human Like No Other: The Rise of Homo Sapiens ~ Johannes Krause
Why Humans? The New Science of the Genus Homo ~ Chris Stringer
An Unusual Ape: The Deep Origins of Our Human Oddities ~ Dean Falk
The Big Picture: From the Origin of Life to the Rise of Humans ~ Tim Coulson
Trailer | Origins of Humankind
What About India? Part II: Success and Stagnation In the World’s Largest Democracy ~ Bishnupriya Gupta
What About India? Part I: Mughals, British, and the Causes of Poverty ~ Bishnupriya Gupta
Why Patriarchy? Foragers, Farmers, and the Origins of Gender Inequality ~ Angarika Deb
Bonus | Evolution Beyond the Selfish Gene (with Eva Jablonka)
Bonus | The Real Lessons From The World Happiness Report (with Lara Aknin)
Bonus | Some Myths About Human Mating (with Katie Starkweather)
Encore | The Mindbending Conversation That Topped 2024 (with Donald Hoffman)
Live from London | Yasheng Huang on the Origins of Modern China
A New Theory on the Broadest Patterns of History ~ Ideen Ali Riahi
Is War Inevitable? Lessons from East Asia ~ David C. Kang
Is War Natural After All? Revisiting the Debate ~ Luke Glowacki
Nobel-Prize Special | Daron Acemoglu on Why We Should Celebrate Humanity
This Might Be The Nicest Thing About Human Nature ~ Lara Aknin
What About China? Part III: A Brief History of China’s Future ~ Yasheng Huang
What About China? Part II: Explaining the Chinese Miracle ~ Yasheng Huang
What About China? Part I: The Deep Currents of Chinese History ~ Yasheng Huang
Does It Matter Who Brings In The Meat? ~ Katie Starkweather
Why Agriculture? Climate Change and the Origins of Farming ~ Andrea Matranga
What Can Moral Dilemmas Tell Us About Ourselves? ~ Peter Railton
The Birth of Modern Prosperity, Part IV: Grasping Towards Equality (with Branko Milanovic)
The Birth of Modern Prosperity, Part III: Power to the People (with Daron Acemoglu)
The Birth of Modern Prosperity, Part II: Laboratories of the New Era (with Brad DeLong)
The Birth of Modern Prosperity, Part I: The Shape of the Story (with Oded Galor)
Mothers, Fathers, And The Many Myths We Have Held ~ Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Did Humans Evolve In Small Groups? ~ Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias
Can We Understand Infinity? ~ Adrian Moore
How Did Humans Evolve? Why Did We? ~ Ian Tattersall
How Did Consciousness Evolve? Did It? ~ Eva Jablonka
Why Do We Love? ~ Arthur Aron
Mental Health Bonus | The Origins of ADHD, Anxiety, and Depression ~ Nikhil Chaudhary
Family Lessons From Hunter-Gatherers ~ Nikhil Chaudhary
Encore | This Conversation Touched The Most Hearts in 2023 ~ Helen Fisher
Could Homo Floresiensis Be Alive Today? ~ Gregory Forth
The Evolution of Inequality Under Capitalism ~ Branko Milanović
Meaning of Life Beyond Space and Time ~ Donald Hoffman
Could Consciousness Explain The Laws Of Physics? ~ Donald Hoffman
Did Men Hunt and Women Gather? ~ Cara Ocobock
A Natural History of Equality ~ Sarah Brosnan
Is the Human Brain Special? ~ Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Encore | How Love Synchronises Our Brains ~ Ruth Feldman
Do Machines Improve the Human Condition? ~ Daron Acemoglu
Encore | Is War Natural For Humans? ~ Douglas P. Fry
What Can Chimpanzees Tell Us About War and Peace? ~ Brian Ferguson
How War Shapes Our Humanity ~ Greta Uehling
Walking Towards the Human Condition ~ Jeremy DeSilva
Do Young Children Care About Others? Searching For The Seeds Of Human Morality ~ Amrisha Vaish
What Kind of Apes Are We? ~ Richard Wrangham
Season Highlights ~ Living With True Egalitarians (with Vivek Venkataraman)
Season Highlights ~ Was Marx Right About History But Wrong About The Future? (with Brad DeLong)
Season Highlights ~ How Geography Shaped Patriarchy, Slavery, and Enlightenment Philosophy (with Oded Galor)
Season Highlights ~ What Makes Romantic Love Last? (with Helen Fisher)
Season Highlights ~ How Climate Changes Brought Us Together (with Kristen Hawkes)
Season Highlights ~ Why Is It So Difficult To Cure Mental Illness? (with Gregory Berns)
Distorting Darwinism, Or Why Evolution Does Not Prove That We Are Selfish ~ SOLO
How To Build A Free Society ~ Karl Widerquist
Human Condition in the Long 20th Century; Or How Economics Changed Everything ~ Brad DeLong
Could Mind Be More Fundamental Than Matter? ~ Bernardo Kastrup
On The Resilience of Humanity ~ Jacqueline Mattis
A Deep History of Equality ~ Elizabeth Anderson
What Can Hunter-Gatherers Tell Us About Our Origins? Going Beyond the Bestsellers ~ Vivek V. Venkataraman
Tracing the Roots of the Wealth of Nations ~ Oded Galor
An Economic History of Homo Sapiens ~ Oded Galor
Holiday Highlights ~ Patricia Churchland on Free Will & Neurophilosophy
Holiday Highlights ~ Ruth Feldman on Empathy, Xenophobia, and Gay Dads
Holiday Highlights ~ Philip Kitcher on Secular Humanism & Religion
A Cultural Biology of Sex, Love, and Monogamy ~ Helen Fisher
What Can Science Tell Us About Happiness? ~ Anna Alexandrova
Do Dogs Feel Love & Other Questions in Animal Neuroscience ~ Gregory Berns
Is War Natural For Humans? ~ Douglas P. Fry
Psychology of Love & Hate ~ Robert Sternberg
Are Grandmothers the Key to Our Evolutionary Success? ~ Kristen Hawkes
Psychology of Conspiracy Theories & The Limits of Science ~ Michael Shermer
The Harmful Delusion of a Singular Self ~ Gregory Berns
A Musical Biology of Love ~ Ruth Feldman
Humanistic Ethics in a Darwinian World ~ Philip Kitcher
Origins of Our Warm-Blooded Morality ~ Patricia Churchland