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Do Other Animals Have Consciousness? Science Could Force Us To Rethink Our Relationships With Them
Friday, 4 October 2024, 11:40 am | Human Bridges
The broad consensus is that many species are sentient. More >>
The Growth Of Malignant And Exclusionary Social Movements
Thursday, 3 October 2024, 4:00 am | Human Bridges
The result is a crisis of democracy, stunting people’s faith in collective self-government owing to its inability to help address practical problems such as climate change, economic inequality, and mass migration. More >>
Keys To Building Human Bridges To The Past
Monday, 30 September 2024, 10:50 pm | Human Bridges
Human technologies have continued to evolve exponentially since the end of the Paleolithic: today we are using them to learn more about the past. More >>
The Surprising Ways Inventions And Ideas Spread In Ancient Prehistory
Monday, 16 September 2024, 2:21 am | Human Bridges
You can learn a lot about humanity from the first technological revolutions of more than 10,000 years ago. More >>
Robert Sapolsky: Are We Better Off Accepting That There’s No Free Will?
Sunday, 15 September 2024, 11:15 pm | Human Bridges
Interviewing the neuroscientist and primate behavior expert on a question that could radically change our understanding of reality. More >>
Political Collapse: Lessons From Fallen Empires
Sunday, 15 September 2024, 11:03 pm | Human Bridges
Our investigation of the disastrous society-wide collapses of four premodern polities, China’s Ming Dynasty, the South Asian Mughal Empire, the High Roman Empire, and Renaissance Venice led to the discovery of an unexpected historical pattern. More >>
The Role Of Ancient DNA In Modern Traits
Sunday, 4 August 2024, 5:17 pm | Human Bridges
Ancient human retrovirus DNA could be one of the markers of susceptibility to mental illness—specifically schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder, a new study suggests. More >>
Facing A Surge In Wildfires, The U.S. Government Turned To Native Wisdom And Advanced Archaeology
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 9:30 am | Human Bridges
Collaborative efforts between forest agencies and Indigenous communities are improving wildfire management by combining oral histories with long-term archaeological datasets, demonstrating the value of integrating an understanding of the past into solutions More >>
Can Teething Predict How Fast You Will Grow?
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 10:11 am | Human Bridges
By Brenna R. Hassett We know that humans live relatively long lives, and we certainly know that we spend a larger proportion of those lives as children than other species. The question remains: how did we manage to extend this critical period of our growth? ... More >>
Roman Oligarchs Avoided Tax Liability And Restrictions On Land Size
Friday, 7 June 2024, 9:33 am | Human Bridges
The oligarchic tradition of land-grabbing and tax dodging goes back centuries. More >>
What Happened To Our Ape Ancestors?
Friday, 31 May 2024, 8:18 pm | Human Bridges
What happened to the extinct species, which have been identified in Eurasian fossil remains over recent decades? How did some apes of these species persist and evolve? And, the most hotly debated question: Did the apes who were our human ancestors originate ... More >>
Modern (Mis)interpretations Of Clean Slates
Friday, 31 May 2024, 7:51 pm | Human Bridges
Today’s creditor-oriented ideology depicts the archaic past as much like our own world, as if civilization was developed by individuals thinking in terms of modern orthodoxy. More >>
How Prehistoric Humans Discovered Fire Making
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 9:20 pm | Human Bridges
Of all the pivotal technologies discovered by humans, fire making was the one that gifted our species with power beyond all others. More >>
A Historical Case For Why The EU Could Endure For More Than 1,000 Years
Saturday, 25 May 2024, 2:41 pm | Human Bridges
The European Union seeks to prevent virulent nationalism from happening again by restoring the cosmopolitanism, size, and economic clout of a multinational empire but without creating a unitary state in the process. More >>
It’s Not Just Ideology: Why The U.S. Is Hard-Wired To Be Hostile To Autocratic Regimes
Friday, 24 May 2024, 8:45 am | Human Bridges
The U.S. was born out of ideas and the geopolitical schemes of competing maritime empires, forging a foreign policy approach that dominates its foreign relations today. More >>
Some Myths Regarding The Genesis Of Enterprise
Wednesday, 22 May 2024, 10:07 am | Human Bridges
Not only were “modern” elements of enterprise present and even dominant already in Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC, but the institutional context was conducive to long-term growth. More >>
Seven Features Of Ancient Enterprise
Wednesday, 15 May 2024, 8:19 am | Human Bridges
The changing context for enterprise through the centuries reminds us that business activities are not universal but fluid and alter according to society’s practical priorities and ethics. More >>
Seeing Red: Our Ancient Relationship With Ocher And The Colour Of Cognition
Friday, 3 May 2024, 8:50 am | Human Bridges
Extensive ocher use reflects the culture and cognitive abilities of early humans, who inherited an affinity for red from primate ancestors. More >>
What Does Play Tell Us About Human Evolution?
Friday, 26 April 2024, 2:42 pm | Human Bridges
There has been a great deal of argument in evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology about what that adaptive value might be. Hypotheses include play in animals as physical training, allowing immature individuals to ‘practice’ pounces or ... More >>
Raising Hairless Primates
Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 5:52 am | Human Bridges
Viewing my children through primatological glasses provides me with an ongoing perspective on raising them. Remembering that we’re all one big primate family makes the wilds of human parenting a little more manageable—and fun. More >>
