Human origins | Global history | Econ history | Anthropology | Archaeology
Covering the story of humanity, from the evolution of apes to the making of the modern economy.
Posting as Ilari Mäkelä, host of On Humans.
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"The continued attraction of the ‘human revolution’ perhaps comes from the fact that for a generation of researchers the notion of a revolution separating ‘modern’ humans from ‘archaic’ hominins was axiomatic."
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>>@huwgroucutt.bsky.social
It's been a privilege working on this!
I read Pomeranz's "The Great Divergence" as a first-year master student at Pekiing University, and was awed. This was the kind of history I had always wanted: It wasn't about kings and courts.
It was about the forces that shape the everyday -- still today.
A highlight from the recent episode with Ken Pomeranz, together with @cagewarwick.bsky.social
#history
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Genome-wide genealogies reveal deep admixtures forming modern humans🏺🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Shows both Neanderthals and ancestral modern humans are formed through a mixture of these two lineages, with no evidence of gene flow from the PRDM9-A-carrying group into Denisovans.
Brad Delong at his best, reminding econ historians to pause at times, and look deeper than growth, institutions, or early modern pin factories. braddelong.substack.com/p/hoisted-fr...
@braddelong.bsky.social
2/ Our guest, Kenneth Pomeranz, has won multiple prestigious awards including the @dandavidprize.org.
The Great Divergence was published by @princetonupress.bsky.social in 2000. Its title coined a term that now defines a whole field -- a field our new series explores.
Why was Europe the birthplace of industrial modernity? Why not China, the land of paper and gunpowder?
In his iconic, "The Great Divergence", Kenneth Pomeranz offered a surprising answer: American colonies & English fossil fuels.
Is he right? 🎧 54min 📖 10min
@cagewarwick.bsky.social
#history
On Humans Podcast
The evolution of symbolic artefacts:
How function shapes form🏺🧪
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Experimental work that systematically addresses the relation between properties of intentional markings and their cognitive implications to support inferences about their past functions.
“The Industrial Revolution happened after the Scientific Revolution, and that's probably not a coincidence.” In this episode of our #economichistory podcast Joel Mokyr, 2025 Nobel laureate explores the many ways science contributed to Europe’s economic rise.
🎧️ Listen at: buff.ly/lbfDqgF
