As an individual, I'm not stronger and not even much smarter than a chimpanzee or an elephant or the whale. And so how did we come to dominate this this planet to such an extent? This is the big question that interests me as a historian. Of course, it links with other scientific disciplines. You can't really understand history without understanding biology.
How did humans come to create society? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Yuval Noah Harari, historian and author of “Sapiens” & “Unstoppable Us,” discuss our species’ ability to cooperate, the role of artificial intelligence, and more.
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