The History of Being Human Podcast
1) HBH 64: Homo Antecessor: The Disturbing Dead End Cannibals of Atapuerca
Recent finds in the Atapuerca site in Spain have confirmed and expanded our understanding of the tates and culinary practices of Homo antecessor. This species is enigmatic and its place in the evolut...Show More
2) HBH 63: Overkill! The Ongoing End of the Megafauna with Dr. Rhyss Lemoine
Rhyss Taylor Lemoine is a postdoctoral researcher in extinction, megafauna, rewilding, and novel ecosystems. Today he speaks to us about the late quaternary extinction. We discuss what megafauna are, ...Show More
3) HBH 62: Megafauna Extinction Mystery
In the late quaternary period, from about 50 to 10 thousand years ago, vast populations of large animals died out. Among them are some of the most iconic of prehistoric creatures -- mammoths, mastodo...Show More
4) HBH 61: The Moral Circle (Best Humans Ever Intro)
In this episode we begin a groundbreaking, never-before-attempted, altogether unprecedented series on the history of being human. We are going to cover some of the best people who ever lived. Aside f...Show More
5) HBH 60: The Ship of Theseus and Personal Identity Through Time
On this episode we cover the famous, ancient "Ship of Theseus" thought experiment, and then stretch it into relevance for the very modern possibility of tranfering our psyche, and possibly our very id...Show More
6) HBH 59: The Perils and Promise of Bipedalism
Being Bipedal was a key step in becoming human. Many of our other abilities, and liabilities, began with bipedalism. On this episode:When bipedalism?Why bipedalism?We dispell some myths and establish...Show More
7) HBH Short: The Inscrutable, Inexorable Arrow of Time
Borges wrote:“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I ...Show More
8) HBH Short: The Mystery of Deja Vu
Most of us have had the feeling that we have experienced something before that we know we could not have expereinced before. It can vary intensity from a slight familiarity to a sure conviction that ...Show More
9) HBH 58: The Death of John Allen Chau
Today we go in depth about the death of John Allen Chau in 2018, including a complete reading of his own personal diary of the terrifying, disturbing events around North Sentinel Island. Events that h...Show More
10) HBH 57: Extreme Tribalism -- The North Sentinelese and the Death of John Allen Chau
Part 1: The most tribal of tribes, the Sentinelese of North Sentinel IslandWe don't know much about them. We don't know what they call themselves, what they think the world or universe is like, what t...Show More
HBH 57: Extreme Tribalism -- The North Sentinelese and the Death of John Allen Chau
38:09 | Jul 22nd, 2024