On Humans

A podcast by Ilari Mäkelä

50 Episodes

  1. Season Highlights ~ Living With True Egalitarians (with Vivek Venkataraman)

    Published: 6/13/2023
  2. Season Highlights ~ Was Marx Right About History But Wrong About The Future? (with Brad DeLong)

    Published: 5/31/2023
  3. Season Highlights ~ How Geography Shaped Patriarchy, Slavery, and Enlightenment Philosophy (with Oded Galor)

    Published: 5/17/2023
  4. Season Highlights ~ What Makes Romantic Love Last? Plus: A Cautionary Note on SSRIs (with Helen Fisher)

    Published: 5/2/2023
  5. Season Highlights ~ How Climate Changes Brought Us Together (with Kristen Hawkes)

    Published: 4/28/2023
  6. Season Highlights ~ Why Is It So Difficult To Cure Mental Illness? (with Gregory Berns)

    Published: 4/15/2023
  7. 20 | Distorting Darwinism, Or Why Evolution Does Not Prove That We Are Selfish ~ SOLO   

    Published: 4/8/2023
  8. 19 | How To Build A Free Society ~ Karl Widerquist

    Published: 3/26/2023
  9. 18 | Human Condition in the Long 20th Century; Or How Economics Changed Everything ~ Brad DeLong

    Published: 3/12/2023
  10. 17 | Could Mind Be More Fundamental Than Matter? ~ Bernardo Kastrup

    Published: 2/26/2023
  11. 16 | Does Poverty Make Us Selfish? ~ Jacqueline Mattis

    Published: 2/14/2023
  12. 15 | A Deep History of Equality ~ Elizabeth Anderson

    Published: 2/4/2023
  13. 14 | What Can Hunter-Gatherers Tell Us About Our Origins? Going Beyond the Bestsellers ~ Vivek V. Venkataraman

    Published: 1/19/2023
  14. 13 | Tracing the Roots of the Wealth of Nations ~ Oded Galor

    Published: 1/14/2023
  15. 12 | An Economic History of Homo Sapiens ~ Oded Galor

    Published: 1/4/2023
  16. Holiday Highlights ~ Patricia Churchland on Free Will & Neurophilosophy

    Published: 1/1/2023
  17. Holiday Highlights ~ Ruth Feldman on Empathy, Xenophobia, and Gay Dads

    Published: 12/29/2022
  18. Holiday Highlights ~ Philip Kitcher on Secular Humanism & Religion

    Published: 12/27/2022
  19. 11 | A Cultural Biology of Sex, Love, and Monogamy ~ Helen Fisher

    Published: 12/22/2022
  20. 10 | What Can Science Tell Us About Happiness? ~ Anna Alexandrova

    Published: 12/10/2022

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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).