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Inside the Brain: A Journey Through the Halls and the Songs of Consciousness ~ Pria Anand
Season 4 Episode 10
Our brains can feel remote and abstract. Hidden behind Latin names and textbook diagrams, they rarely feel as personal to us as our hearts and stomac…
9 months ago
Not So Simple After All? Apes, Einstein, and the Many Mysteries of the Human Brain ~ Dean Falk
Season 4 Episode 9
Here is a simple story about the origins of the human brain: All primate brains are dense with neurons—they are the supercomputers of the animal worl…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Prologue: The (Very Simple) Story of the Human Brain ~ Suzana Herculano-Houzel
I'm excited to announce that On Humans is launching a new series this fall! This one will explore the wonders of the human brain. The new episodes wi…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
The Great Question of History: India, Britain, and the Fates of Nations | Live at the British Academy
Why did the great powers of Asia stagnate whilst Europe was rising? This question—often called the Great Divergence—is one of the most defining quest…
10 months ago
Encore | Why Agriculture? Climate Change and the Origins of Farming ~ Andrea Matranga
Climate. Weathers. History.
Here's an encore episode to wrap up the mini-series on these themes!
This episode on the puzzling origins of farming is one…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Climate, Water, and the Origins of Colonialism ~ Tirthankar Roy
Season 4 Episode 8
Before they built empires, the Europeans built ports.
Across Africa and Asia, European sailors arrived as merchants. They traded and negotiated. They …
11 months ago
How Climate Crafted Humanity (Or Did It?) ~ Jessica Thompson
Season 4 Episode 7
On Humans is back from the break!
To mark the summer heat, here is a two-part series on how climate has shaped the human story. In next week's episod…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
An Essential Difference? Males, Females, and the Spaces In Between ~ Augustín Fuentes
Season 4 Episode 6
Binary thinking is out of fashion. But what about biological sex?
Whatever we might say about diversity and fluidity, the ideas of “male” and “female”…
1 year, 1 month ago
The Rest is History: From the Origins of Farming to the Dawn of Modernity ~ Johannes Krause
Season 4 Episode 5
And so it ends! In the final episode of The Origins of Humankind, we explore the aftermath of the story so far—the story of how one peculiar species,…
1 year, 1 month ago
A Human Like No Other: The Rise of Homo Sapiens ~ Johannes Krause
Season 4 Episode 4
The time has come: This is where our story truly begins.
In Episode 4 of The Origins of Humankind, we finally turn the spotlight on Homo sapiens. Guid…
1 year, 2 months ago