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<p>Welcome to the first episode of the <em>Origins of Humankind! </em></p><p>In this sweeping pilot, we cover the entire planetary backstory of human existence – from the origins of life to the climate change that kickstarted human evolution. Our expert guide on this journey is <strong>Tim Coulson</strong>, the Head of Biology at the University of Oxford and the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Universal-History-Us-13-8-billion/dp/0241662303" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em>A Universal History of Us</em>. </a><br></p><p>The episode explores questions such as:</p><ul><li>What is &quot;life”? How did it begin?</li><li>The surprising role of meteors (even before dinosaurs)</li><li>Why animals? </li><li>“Ediacaran Garden” and the dawn of predators</li><li>Blood, bones, and the dawn of “terrestrial fish” (yup, that’s us!)</li><li>Our ancestors amongst the dinosaurs</li><li>Fruits and snakes in primate evolution</li><li>The climate change that made humanity </li><li>The rise and spread of humans </li></ul><p><br></p><p>As always, we finish with the guest’s reflections on humanity.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>MORE LINKS</strong></p><ul><li><p>More stuff: <a href="https://onhumans.substack.com/origins" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">OnHumans.Substack.com/Origins</a></p></li><li><p>Support the show: <a href="https://patreon.com/onhumans" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Patreon.com/OnHumans</a></p></li><li><p>Free lectures on human origins: <a href="https://carta.anthropogeny.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">CARTA</a></p></li><li><p>Tim Coulson’s book: <a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/443807/a-universal-history-of-us-by-coulson-tim/9780241545668" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em>A Universal History of Us</em></a></p></li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>NEXT EPISODE</strong></p><p><strong>#2 An Unusual Ape (Tuesday 2nd of April)</strong></p><p>In episode two, we follow the first steps on the human line, exploring how abandoning life in the trees paved the way for many of our human oddities.</p><p><strong>Key questions:</strong> Why was upright posture so important? What did it do to parents and children? When did the brains of our ancestors start to show human oddities?</p><p><strong>Your guide: </strong>Dean Falk, a leading expert on brain evolution at the University of Florida. She recently published a book titled <a href="https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487546649" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em>A Botanic Age</em></a>, looking at human evolution before the Stone Age.</p><p>Stay tuned. And subscribe to On Humans.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>KEYWORDS</strong></p><p>Evolution | Human evolution | Human origins | Origin of life | Emergence of life | Abiogenesis | Natural history | History of life | Meteors | Organic chemistry | Vertebrate evolution | Tetrapods | Dinosaurs | Pleistocene | Predators | Early humans | Austrolopithecins | Lucy | Homo erectus | Homo ergaster | Homo sapiens | Megafauna extinction | Humanity | Carl Sagan | Ediacaran Garden | Cambrian Explosion | Mesozoic | Jurassic | Triassic | Cretaceous | The Great Oxigenation Event | Sauropsids | Synapsids | </p><p><br></p>

On Humans

Ilari Mäkelä

The Big Picture: From the Origin of Life to the Rise of Humans ~ Tim Coulson

MAR 25, 202564 MIN
On Humans

The Big Picture: From the Origin of Life to the Rise of Humans ~ Tim Coulson

MAR 25, 202564 MIN

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<p>Welcome to the first episode of the <em>Origins of Humankind! </em></p><p>In this sweeping pilot, we cover the entire planetary backstory of human existence – from the origins of life to the climate change that kickstarted human evolution. Our expert guide on this journey is <strong>Tim Coulson</strong>, the Head of Biology at the University of Oxford and the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Universal-History-Us-13-8-billion/dp/0241662303" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em>A Universal History of Us</em>. </a><br></p><p>The episode explores questions such as:</p><ul><li>What is &quot;life”? How did it begin?</li><li>The surprising role of meteors (even before dinosaurs)</li><li>Why animals? </li><li>“Ediacaran Garden” and the dawn of predators</li><li>Blood, bones, and the dawn of “terrestrial fish” (yup, that’s us!)</li><li>Our ancestors amongst the dinosaurs</li><li>Fruits and snakes in primate evolution</li><li>The climate change that made humanity </li><li>The rise and spread of humans </li></ul><p><br></p><p>As always, we finish with the guest’s reflections on humanity.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>MORE LINKS</strong></p><ul><li><p>More stuff: <a href="https://onhumans.substack.com/origins" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">OnHumans.Substack.com/Origins</a></p></li><li><p>Support the show: <a href="https://patreon.com/onhumans" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Patreon.com/OnHumans</a></p></li><li><p>Free lectures on human origins: <a href="https://carta.anthropogeny.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">CARTA</a></p></li><li><p>Tim Coulson’s book: <a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/443807/a-universal-history-of-us-by-coulson-tim/9780241545668" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em>A Universal History of Us</em></a></p></li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>NEXT EPISODE</strong></p><p><strong>#2 An Unusual Ape (Tuesday 2nd of April)</strong></p><p>In episode two, we follow the first steps on the human line, exploring how abandoning life in the trees paved the way for many of our human oddities.</p><p><strong>Key questions:</strong> Why was upright posture so important? What did it do to parents and children? When did the brains of our ancestors start to show human oddities?</p><p><strong>Your guide: </strong>Dean Falk, a leading expert on brain evolution at the University of Florida. She recently published a book titled <a href="https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487546649" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em>A Botanic Age</em></a>, looking at human evolution before the Stone Age.</p><p>Stay tuned. And subscribe to On Humans.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>KEYWORDS</strong></p><p>Evolution | Human evolution | Human origins | Origin of life | Emergence of life | Abiogenesis | Natural history | History of life | Meteors | Organic chemistry | Vertebrate evolution | Tetrapods | Dinosaurs | Pleistocene | Predators | Early humans | Austrolopithecins | Lucy | Homo erectus | Homo ergaster | Homo sapiens | Megafauna extinction | Humanity | Carl Sagan | Ediacaran Garden | Cambrian Explosion | Mesozoic | Jurassic | Triassic | Cretaceous | The Great Oxigenation Event | Sauropsids | Synapsids | </p><p><br></p>