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Where do we come from? How did we get here? And what kinds of creatures are we?On Humans features conversations with leading scholars about human nature, human condition, and the human journey.
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Beyond Paleo: A Culinary History of Humanity ~ Daniel Lieberman (opens the original)
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“What do you think of the paleo diet?” To my surprise, this has become the most common question I get after telling people that I cover human evolution. I’ve long struggled to answer. Yes, the idea makes a lot of sense: humans evolved as hunter-gatherers, so our bodies should do well when we eat like hunter-gatherers. But what exactly do hunter-gatherers eat? Harvard professor Daniel Lieberman wanted to find out. After reviewing the evidence we have on the diets of hunter-gatherers, he came to a
When Did Globalisation Really Begin? ~ Valerie Hansen (opens the original)
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We can decide to stay home, but even then, the wider world is always close to our skin. From global trade to ideas that travel across continents, the wider world is always woven into our modern life. Since when has this been the case? There is a modern story about globalisation — a story about telecommunications and aeroplanes and such — but this is the climax of a long process, not its beginning. To find the deeper roots of globalisation, we should turn our gaze to the medieval world, and speci
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