ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Many parts of contemporary life ask us to live against older human needs: parenting without a village, eating industrial food, sitting still, sleeping poorly, and trying to belong in thin communities.
Originally Human brings anthropologists, researchers, writers, doctors, and cultural thinkers into conversation about the modern mismatch — without romanticizing the past or prescribing one “natural” way to live.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 23 days
Average audio length:
55 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
5 episodes
since July 5, 2026
episodic
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What makes humans so good at learning from one another? And how did cooperation, childhood and culture shape our evolution?
In this episode of Originally Human, I speak with philosopher of science and evolutionary theorist Professor Kim Sterelny about how humans became such extraordinary learners —…
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What does it actually mean to be human — and what can our evolutionary past teach us about how to live better today?
In this episode of Originally Human, I’m joined by anthropologist and author Agustín Fuentes for a wide-ranging conversation about what makes our species unusual, and what we might …
Michaeleen Doucleff, PhD, is a science journalist and author of Hunt, Gather, Parent. After struggling with some of the challenges of modern parenting herself, she travelled with her young daughter to Mexico, the Arctic, and Tanzania to learn from Maya, Inuit, and Hadzabe families about how they ra…
What if some of the things children need most are also some of the things modern life makes hardest to provide?
In this episode of Originally Human, I talk to psychologist and researcher Darcia Narvaez about the Evolved Nest — her framework for understanding the developmental environment human chil…
What happens when we look at modern family life through the lens of evolutionary anthropology?
In this episode of Originally Human, I’m joined by Professor Ruth Mace, an evolutionary anthropologist whose work explores human behaviour, family systems, reproduction and cooperation.
Ruth began her car…
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