Vol 1 Ep 9 - The origin of homo sapiens

Reflections on Volume 4 and looking forward to Volume 5, including the big announcement about the name of the volume and our usual review of listener messages. 

1200 - 1449 - Step into the fourteenth century, a world caught between collapse and rebirth. As the Mongol Empire fractures, new powers rise across Europe, Asia and Africa. From the birth of the Ming dynasty to the brilliance of Mali and the devastation of the Black Death, this e ... Show More

1000 - 1299 - From shattered empires to rising ideas, this episode traces a world in motion. Across continents, scholars, warriors and kings reshape faith, power and knowledge, while distant societies unknowingly edge toward collision. This is an age of transformation — where pri ... Show More

Africa's story has long been presented in western narratives as one that only 'began' with the arrival of non-Africans – yet modern science has revealed that the African continent was, in fact, the cradle of humanity itself. Zeinab Badawi speaks to Danny Bird about her new book t ... Show More

The Stone Age is the foundational period of human history, stretching from roughly 3 million to 5,000 years ago, and accounting for over 99% of humanity’s time on earth. It’s the era when modern humans evolved and migrated out of Africa to populate the globe, developed language a ... Show More

The Ashanti were a kingdom that developed in what is now central Ghana around the 13th century. By the 17th century, they had become powerful and wealthy from both the slave trade and gold trade. After Britain colonized what they called the Gold Coast, the Ashanti were incorporat ... Show More

Before smartphones, cars, or even books, people lived very different lives. In this episode, we travel way back in time to explore how humans first lived, moved, learned, and grew together. From early tools to the first villages, discover how the story of humankind is really the ... Show More

Hello to all my beautiful listeners! Today, we’re going to talk about how I’ve evolved, and how much I’ve evolved, over the years. We’ll get into all sorts of topics like marriage, finances, my relationship with food and so much more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inform ... Show More

<p>I had no idea how wild human history was before chatting with the geneticist of ancient DNA <a target="_blank" href="https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/">David Reich</a>.</p><p>Human history has been again and again a story of one group figuring ‘something’ out, and then basically ... Show More

<p>From a renowned historian comes a &nbsp;groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution - a number &nbsp;one international best seller - that explores the ways in which biology &nbsp;and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it &nbsp;mean ... Show More

<p>For hundreds of thousands of years Neanderthals have roamed the lands of what is today Europe and western Asia. But how did they survive, and what caused their decline?</p><br><p>Tristan Hughes delves into the fate of the last Neanderthals and continues our Ice Age mini-series ... Show More

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2021: Before the 17th century, people did not think of themselves as belonging to something called the white race. But once th ... Show More

Zee runs us through the events and it’s… a lot. The post The First Crusade Sample first appeared on The British History Podcast.