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🗓️ 17 August 2024
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0:00.0 | I wanted to let you know that we're running some research as an opportunity for you to give us feedback on our podcasts. |
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0:22.0 | Welcome to the History Extra Podcast, Fascinating Historical Conversations from the |
0:28.1 | makers of BBC History magazine. |
0:33.0 | Ever since the dawn of humanity, people have been on the move. |
0:37.0 | Our ancestors' ability to travel across vast distances and adapt to different environments |
0:42.0 | has been key to our species survival. |
0:45.0 | But why do we migrate? |
0:47.0 | When did passports first come into existence? |
0:50.0 | And what impact have slavery, colonialismism and war had on migration? |
0:56.0 | In this Everything You Want to Know episode, Ian Golden speaks to Danny Bird about this age-old phenomenon and how the modern world is dealing with it. |
1:05.2 | Ian thank you very much for joining me today for this episode of everything you wanted to |
1:09.2 | know where we'll be looking at the history of migration. How critical is migration being to the history of humanity? |
1:15.6 | Danny, it's a pleasure to be chatting to you about this. Migration has been absolutely |
1:21.0 | central. We wouldn't exist as a species without migration. We would have died out through famine, through disease, and it's the key to the success of Homo sapiens. |
1:32.8 | So without migration, there would be no Homo sapiens, |
1:36.3 | and we certainly wouldn't be judging to each other today. |
1:39.1 | We people the planet, and then by interacting with different experiences accumulated over time in |
1:45.9 | different places in very different circumstances we were able to swap |
1:51.1 | technologies and ideas and foods, languages that created the |
1:56.2 | humanity that we know today. |
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