Human Evolution

Species

Macken Murphy

Anthropology, Social Sciences, Species, Science, Animals, Nature

4.8 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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I preview my new 10-lesson audio course, "Human Evolution," on Listenable.

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0:00.0	There's one species of animal I'll probably never do an episode on.
0:05.0	If I do, it'll be the last episode, as a final hurrah.
0:09.0	Now, some of you are going to think it's a bit of anthropocentrism on my part, and maybe it is,
0:13.1	but I think it's more that I've spent years studying this one species.
0:18.8	Homo sapiens.
0:20.6	How am I going to distill what I want to say about them
0:23.2	into a 20 or 30-minute podcast? I'm going to need more than that. In December, a company called
0:32.1	Listenable came along and gave me more than that, the opportunity to produce a 10-episode audio course on
0:40.4	human evolution. It's not affiliated with species, but if you like this show, I guarantee you will
0:46.7	like this audio course even more. The research, the writing, the production, all of it is higher
0:52.1	quality. And I bring the same presentation I use on
0:55.1	this podcast to every significant trait we evolved and to our dead cousins and ancestors. I'm fairly
1:01.3	confident that everything you could want to know about human evolution is in this course.
1:06.9	We open up with a lesson on primate evolution, where you'll find out why we have opposable
1:11.6	thumbs, why we have fingernails instead of claws, why we don't have eyes on the sides of our
1:16.3	heads, like almost every other animal, among other things. We've got an episode on apes,
1:21.2	where you'll hear about tool use, my favorite anthropological anecdote, and the good, the bad, and the very, very, very ugly of our close cousins.
1:31.2	We've also got an episode on the not actually missing missing links between us and chimp-like ancestors,
1:37.0	where we talk about the many strange theories for why humans evolved to stand on two feet.
1:42.0	And we've got an episode on our Homo erectus grandparents,
1:45.4	hunting, why we're lacking body hair,
1:47.5	and why we love baseball.
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