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The History of Being Human

The History of Being Human

By: Noel Armstrong
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History, anatomy and physiology, philosophy, psychology, anthropology. The podcast that attempts to resurrect sense and meaning from the dust of a billion factoids.

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Episodes
  • HBH 66: The Moon, In Fact

    HBH 66: The Moon, In Fact
    May 18 2026
    By special request from a brilliant young listener - an episode about the moon!

    Be careful what you wish for, because it's all here lol.

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    44 mins
  • HBH 65: Future Self Continuity and Bad Decisions

    HBH 65: Future Self Continuity and Bad Decisions
    Jan 5 2026
    How well do you know your future self?

    How much do you like yout future self?

    The answer to these two questions has implications for how you plan and provide for that person.

    Today, we cover the work of Hal Hershfield and others about how well or poorly we identify with Future Us, and what it means for how short- or far-sighted we are in our decision-making.

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    11 mins
  • HBH 64: Homo Antecessor: The Disturbing Dead End Cannibals of Atapuerca

    HBH 64: Homo Antecessor: The Disturbing Dead End Cannibals of Atapuerca
    Aug 12 2025
    Recent finds in the Atapuerca site in Spain have confirmed and expanded our understanding of the tates and culinary practices of Homo antecessor. This species is enigmatic and its place in the evolutionary tree unclear.

    But what is very clear is that it was cannibalistic. And on a large scale. It had a taste for young hominins, probably from competing tribes. How, you ask, could we possibly know that?

    In this epsiode of The History of Being Human, we cover everything we know and how we know it. Height, habitus, habits, diet of animals and hominins, and behavior.

    This episode expands significantly on the previous consideration of archaic human cannibalism in episode 3.

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    39 mins
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