A Short History of Humans

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.7 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Why are humans the only species to have escaped – only very recently – the subsistence trap, allowing us to enjoy a standard of living that vastly exceeds all others? And why have we progressed so unequally around the world?

Professor Oded Galor is an economist and the founding thinker behind Unified Growth Theory, which seeks to uncover the fundamental causes of development, prosperity and inequality over the entire span of human history. Oded joins Dan on the podcast to offer an explanation of the progress that has taken place over the past two hundred years and that has allowed the human species to progress with great disparity.

This episode was produced by Hannah Ward, the audio editor was Dougal Patmore.

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0:00.0	I've really welcomed Dan Snow's history hit.
0:03.6	You know, I like to keep you guessing on this point.
0:06.1	You never know what you're going to get.
0:07.1	You're going to get a little vignette, little 18th century history of a particular person,
0:11.8	a particular moment, a particular battle, a particular invention or breakthrough.
0:16.2	And every so often, we go big.
0:18.6	We go wide.
0:19.6	I love it.
0:20.6	We talk about the whole history of humankind in one episode.
0:23.8	And today, my friends is one of those days, the journey of humanity with a professor of
0:29.6	economics at Brown University, the founding thinker behind the unified growth theory.
0:34.6	I mean, that sounds awesome.
0:36.2	And this in a new book and a new project he's seeking to uncover the fundamental cause of
0:40.5	development, prosperity and inequality over the entire span of human history.
0:45.5	Imagine having a conference to sit down and do that.
0:49.1	Well, good luck, too.
0:52.2	It is Ode de galore.
0:54.3	And the prof and I chat about what is going on on this funny little planet.
0:58.2	Now I did a bunch of intelligent apes.
1:02.0	Work out how to grow a bit more food.
1:04.0	Stay settled.
1:05.4	Deal with their own sewage.
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