371 | Kyle Harper on How Humans Have Shaped Life on Earth
Humanity is merely one species out of millions living on Earth, but we have a disproportionate impact on the rest
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History
367 | Jared Diamond on the Course of History and the Role of Leaders
The course of history is affected by many things, including the political and social situations of large groups of people,
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356 | Andrea Wulf on Enlightenment, Nature, Romanticism, and Modernity
All ideas have a history, no matter how inevitable and well-entrenched they may seem to us today. The later Enlightenment
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312 | Thomas Levenson on The Mutual History of Humans and Germs
The germ theory of disease is a crowning achievement of science, up there with modern physics, continental drift, and evolution
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287 | Jean-Paul Faguet on Institutions and the Legacy of History
One common feature of complex systems is sensitive dependence on initial conditions: a small change in how systems begin evolving
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273 | Stefanos Geroulanos on the Invention of Prehistory
Humanity itself might be the hardest thing for scientists to study fairly and accurately. Not only do we come to
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246 | David Stuart on Time and Science in Maya Civilization
You might remember the somewhat bizarre worries that swept through certain circles back in 2012, based on the end of
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209 | Brad DeLong on Why the 20th Century Fell Short of Utopia
People throughout history have imagined ideal societies of various sorts. As the twentieth century dawned, advances in manufacturing and communication
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179 | David Reich on Genetics and Ancient Humanity
Human beings like to divide themselves into groups, and then cooperate, socialize, and reproduce with members of their own group.
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147 | Rachel Laudan on Cuisine, Culture, and Empire
For as much as people talk about food, a good case can be made that we don’t give it the
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