On Humans
By Ilari Mäkelä
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Episodes: 80
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Where do we come from? What brings us together? Why do we love? Why do we destroy?
On Humans features conversations with leading scholars about human nature, human condition, and the human journey. From the origins of war to the psychology of love, each topic brings fresh insights into perennial questions about our self-understanding.
Support: Patreon.com/OnHumans
Articles: OnHumans.Substack.com
Focus areas: Anthropology, Psychology, Archaeology, Philosophy, Big History
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An Unusual Ape: The Deep Origins of Our Human Oddities ~ Dean Falk
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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The Big Picture: From the Origin of Life to the Rise of Humans ~ Tim Coulson
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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Trailer | Origins of Humankind
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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What About India? Part II: Success and Stagnation In the World’s Largest Democracy ~ Bishnupriya Gupta
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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What About India? Part I: Mughals, British, and the Causes of Poverty ~ Bishnupriya Gupta
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Why Patriarchy? Foragers, Farmers, and the Origins of Gender Inequality ~ Angarika Deb
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Bonus | Evolution Beyond the Selfish Gene (with Eva Jablonka)
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Bonus | The Real Lessons From The World Happiness Report (with Lara Aknin)
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Bonus | Some Myths About Human Mating (with Katie Starkweather)
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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Encore | The Mindbending Conversation That Topped 2024 (with Donald Hoffman)
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Live from London | Yasheng Huang on the Origins of Modern China
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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A New Theory on the Broadest Patterns of History ~ Ideen Ali Riahi
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Is War Inevitable? Lessons from East Asia ~ David C. Kang
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Is War Natural After All? Revisiting the Debate ~ Luke Glowacki
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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Nobel-Prize Special | Daron Acemoglu on Why We Should Celebrate Humanity
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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This Might Be The Nicest Thing About Human Nature ~ Lara Aknin
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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What About China? Part III: A Brief History of China’s Future ~ Yasheng Huang
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Sep 21, 2024 |
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What About China? Part II: Explaining the Chinese Miracle ~ Yasheng Huang
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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What About China? Part I: The Deep Currents of Chinese History ~ Yasheng Huang
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Does It Matter Who Brings In The Meat? ~ Katie Starkweather
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Why Agriculture? Climate Change and the Origins of Farming ~ Andrea Matranga
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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What Can Moral Dilemmas Tell Us About Ourselves? ~ Peter Railton
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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The Birth of Modern Prosperity, Part IV: Grasping Towards Equality (with Branko Milanovic)
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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The Birth of Modern Prosperity, Part III: Power to the People (with Daron Acemoglu)
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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The Birth of Modern Prosperity, Part II: Laboratories of the New Era (with Brad DeLong)
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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The Birth of Modern Prosperity, Part I: The Shape of the Story (with Oded Galor)
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May 28, 2024 |
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Mothers, Fathers, And The Many Myths We Have Held ~ Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
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May 08, 2024 |
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Did Humans Evolve In Small Groups? ~ Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Can We Understand Infinity? ~ Adrian Moore
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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How Did Humans Evolve? Why Did We? ~ Ian Tattersall
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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How Did Consciousness Evolve? Did It? ~ Eva Jablonka
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Why Do We Love? ~ Arthur Aron
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Mental Health Bonus | The Origins of ADHD, Anxiety, and Depression ~ Nikhil Chaudhary
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Family Lessons From Hunter-Gatherers ~ Nikhil Chaudhary
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Encore | This Conversation Touched The Most Hearts in 2023 ~ Helen Fisher
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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Could Homo Floresiensis Be Alive Today? ~ Gregory Forth
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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The Evolution of Inequality Under Capitalism ~ Branko Milanović
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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Meaning of Life Beyond Space and Time ~ Donald Hoffman
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Could Consciousness Explain The Laws Of Physics? ~ Donald Hoffman
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Did Men Hunt and Women Gather? ~ Cara Ocobock
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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A Natural History of Equality ~ Sarah Brosnan
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Is the Human Brain Special? ~ Suzana Herculano-Houzel
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Encore | How Love Synchronises Our Brains ~ Ruth Feldman
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Do Machines Improve the Human Condition? ~ Daron Acemoglu
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Encore | Is War Natural For Humans? ~ Douglas P. Fry
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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What Can Chimpanzees Tell Us About War and Peace? ~ Brian Ferguson
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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How War Shapes Our Humanity ~ Greta Uehling
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Walking Towards the Human Condition ~ Jeremy DeSilva
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Do Young Children Care About Others? Searching For The Seeds Of Human Morality ~ Amrisha Vaish
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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What Kind of Apes Are We? ~ Richard Wrangham
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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Season Highlights ~ Living With True Egalitarians (with Vivek Venkataraman)
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Season Highlights ~ Was Marx Right About History But Wrong About The Future? (with Brad DeLong)
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May 31, 2023 |
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Season Highlights ~ How Geography Shaped Patriarchy, Slavery, and Enlightenment Philosophy (with Oded Galor)
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May 17, 2023 |
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Season Highlights ~ What Makes Romantic Love Last? Plus: A Cautionary Note on SSRIs (with Helen Fisher)
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May 02, 2023 |
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Season Highlights ~ How Climate Changes Brought Us Together (with Kristen Hawkes)
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Season Highlights ~ Why Is It So Difficult To Cure Mental Illness? (with Gregory Berns)
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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Distorting Darwinism, Or Why Evolution Does Not Prove That We Are Selfish ~ SOLO
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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How To Build A Free Society ~ Karl Widerquist
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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Human Condition in the Long 20th Century; Or How Economics Changed Everything ~ Brad DeLong
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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Could Mind Be More Fundamental Than Matter? ~ Bernardo Kastrup
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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Does Poverty Make Us Selfish? ~ Jacqueline Mattis
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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A Deep History of Equality ~ Elizabeth Anderson
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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What Can Hunter-Gatherers Tell Us About Our Origins? Going Beyond the Bestsellers ~ Vivek V. Venkataraman
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Tracing the Roots of the Wealth of Nations ~ Oded Galor
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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An Economic History of Homo Sapiens ~ Oded Galor
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Holiday Highlights ~ Patricia Churchland on Free Will & Neurophilosophy
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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Holiday Highlights ~ Ruth Feldman on Empathy, Xenophobia, and Gay Dads
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Holiday Highlights ~ Philip Kitcher on Secular Humanism & Religion
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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A Cultural Biology of Sex, Love, and Monogamy ~ Helen Fisher
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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What Can Science Tell Us About Happiness? ~ Anna Alexandrova
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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Do Dogs Feel Love & Other Questions in Animal Neuroscience ~ Gregory Berns
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Dec 03, 2022 |
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Is War Natural For Humans? ~ Douglas P. Fry
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Nov 19, 2022 |
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Psychology of Love & Hate ~ Robert Sternberg
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Nov 12, 2022 |
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Are Grandmothers the Key to Our Evolutionary Success? ~ Kristen Hawkes
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Nov 05, 2022 |
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Psychology of Conspiracy Theories & The Limits of Science ~ Michael Shermer
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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The Harmful Delusion of a Singular Self ~ Gregory Berns
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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A Musical Biology of Love ~ Ruth Feldman
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Humanistic Ethics in a Darwinian World ~ Philip Kitcher
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Oct 08, 2022 |
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Origins of Our Warm-Blooded Morality ~ Patricia Churchland
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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Trailer | Welcome to the On Humans Podcast
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Sep 26, 2022 |