Human History

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  12/9/2021
  

  This Paleoanthropologist is Unraveling the Mystery of How Humans Started Eating Meat

  "Every time I got to pull a bone out of the ground it literally felt like reaching through time. I was touching a bone that hadn’t been touched for a million and a half years — it was magical" – Briana Pobiner.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/6/2021
  

  Rutger Bregman: Despite Everything, Humans Aren't the Worst

  Kara Swisher's "Sway" podcast features Rutger Bregman's defense of the human potential for good, and the need to create the social structures in which genius can thrive. 

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• SOURCE: Scientific American
  11/30/2021
  

  Humans Are Doomed to Extinction

  by Henry Gee

  From the perspective of a natural historian, humanity has had a good run, but "I suspect that the human population is set not just for shrinkage but collapse—and soon."