#58: BEING HUMAN: How Our Biology Shaped World History with Lewis Dartnell

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Prof. Lewis Dartnell is a research scientist, presenter and author based in London, UK.
He graduated from Oxford University with a First Class degree in Biological Sciences and completed his PhD at University College London in 2007. He now holds the Professorship in Science Communication at the University of Westminster.
He has also published five books: THE KNOWLEDGE was the Sunday Times ‘New Thinking’ Book of the Year and international bestseller, and ORIGINS: How the Earth Made Us is a Sunday Times top History book of 2019.
I had the pleasure of speaking to Lewis about his latest book titled: BEING HUMAN: How our Biology shaped World History
Some of the topics we discussed includes:

1. The process of deciding which topics Lewis wanted to focus on in each chapter.
2. Family: How did we through evolution come up with 'pair bonding' and what did it help solve?
3. Endemic diseases & Pandemic diseases - and the link between how some of them has has changed the world
4. Exploring the argument that agriculture is 'the worst mistake in human history'
5. Cognitive biases and why being aware of them alone, still doesn't allow us to stop them.

The Book and Audiobook: BEING HUMAN: How our Biology shaped World History
is out now.
You can also find out more about Lewis on his website http://lewisdartnell.com

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