Cultural Evolution

Cultural Evolution

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A drawing of a group of people soaring in a plane, embodying cosmism.
High Culture
Cosmism: The 19th-century movement to reach space and immortality
In revolutionary Russia, a group of forward-thinking philosophers offered an alternative to both futurism and communism.
Tim Brinkhof
Book cover of "The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything" by Peter Brannen, featuring themes like fire and human evolution, alongside the text “an excerpt from” on a light blue background.
Books
How taming fire made us human
In this excerpt from "The Story of CO2," Peter Brennan explains how changes in the Earth's ecosystem led to fire, which in turn led our ancestors to become the "fire apes."
Peter Brannen
Diagram showing human evolutionary relationships and gene flow among Khoisan, West Africans, Non-Africans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans over time, with percentages of genetic admixture indicated.
Strange Maps
Evolution isn’t a straight line: Modern humans come from 2 ancient lineages
After more than a million years of separation, two branches of humanity reunited around 300,000 years ago, suggests new research.
Frank Jacobs
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