On Humans
A podcast by Ilari Mäkelä
50 Episodes
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Season Highlights ~ Living With True Egalitarians (with Vivek Venkataraman)
Published: 6/13/2023 -
Season Highlights ~ Was Marx Right About History But Wrong About The Future? (with Brad DeLong)
Published: 5/31/2023 -
Season Highlights ~ How Geography Shaped Patriarchy, Slavery, and Enlightenment Philosophy (with Oded Galor)
Published: 5/17/2023 -
Season Highlights ~ What Makes Romantic Love Last? Plus: A Cautionary Note on SSRIs (with Helen Fisher)
Published: 5/2/2023 -
Season Highlights ~ How Climate Changes Brought Us Together (with Kristen Hawkes)
Published: 4/28/2023 -
Season Highlights ~ Why Is It So Difficult To Cure Mental Illness? (with Gregory Berns)
Published: 4/15/2023 -
20 | Distorting Darwinism, Or Why Evolution Does Not Prove That We Are Selfish ~ SOLO
Published: 4/8/2023 -
19 | How To Build A Free Society ~ Karl Widerquist
Published: 3/26/2023 -
18 | Human Condition in the Long 20th Century; Or How Economics Changed Everything ~ Brad DeLong
Published: 3/12/2023 -
17 | Could Mind Be More Fundamental Than Matter? ~ Bernardo Kastrup
Published: 2/26/2023 -
16 | Does Poverty Make Us Selfish? ~ Jacqueline Mattis
Published: 2/14/2023 -
15 | A Deep History of Equality ~ Elizabeth Anderson
Published: 2/4/2023 -
14 | What Can Hunter-Gatherers Tell Us About Our Origins? Going Beyond the Bestsellers ~ Vivek V. Venkataraman
Published: 1/19/2023 -
13 | Tracing the Roots of the Wealth of Nations ~ Oded Galor
Published: 1/14/2023 -
12 | An Economic History of Homo Sapiens ~ Oded Galor
Published: 1/4/2023 -
Holiday Highlights ~ Patricia Churchland on Free Will & Neurophilosophy
Published: 1/1/2023 -
Holiday Highlights ~ Ruth Feldman on Empathy, Xenophobia, and Gay Dads
Published: 12/29/2022 -
Holiday Highlights ~ Philip Kitcher on Secular Humanism & Religion
Published: 12/27/2022 -
11 | A Cultural Biology of Sex, Love, and Monogamy ~ Helen Fisher
Published: 12/22/2022 -
10 | What Can Science Tell Us About Happiness? ~ Anna Alexandrova
Published: 12/10/2022
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 questions such as: Where do we come from? What brings us together? Why do we love? Why do we destroy? Support the show: Patreon.com/OnHumans Articles to read: OnHumans.Substack.com The show is hosted by Ilari Mäkelä, a London-based science communicator with a background in Psychology and Philosophy, both Western (BA, Oxford) and Eastern (MPhil, Peking University).