On Humans
A podcast by Ilari Mäkelä
78 Episodes
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Encore | How Love Synchronises Our Brains ~ Ruth Feldman
Published: 9/18/2023 -
26 | Do Machines Improve the Human Condition? ~ Daron Acemoglu
Published: 9/10/2023 -
Encore | Is War Natural For Humans? ~ Douglas P. Fry
Published: 8/25/2023 -
25 | What Can Chimpanzees Tell Us About War and Peace? ~ Brian Ferguson
Published: 8/19/2023 -
24 | How War Shapes Our Humanity ~ Greta Uehling
Published: 7/31/2023 -
23 | Walking Towards the Human Condition ~ Jeremy DeSilva
Published: 7/17/2023 -
22 | Do Young Children Care About Others? Searching For The Seeds Of Human Morality ~ Amrisha Vaish
Published: 7/2/2023 -
21 | What Kind of Apes Are We? ~ Richard Wrangham
Published: 6/18/2023 -
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
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