
The Many Ways of Being Human
One hundred chapters. One a day. Free.
Starts on 30 November 2026
Why has a single animal found so many ways of being human — and what is lost if all of them become one?
Part 1Africa
Part 2Fertile Crescent and desert
Part 3Steppe, taiga, ice
Part 4South Asia
Part 5East Asia
Part 6Southeast Asia
Part 7Oceania and Australia
Part 8The Americas
8.1 Beringia and the Inuit
8.2 The Northwest Coast
8.3 California and the Great Basin
8.4 The Plains
8.5 Pueblo, Hopi, Navajo
8.6 The Haudenosaunee
8.7 Cahokia and the Southeast
8.8 Olmecs and Maya
8.9 The Mexica
8.10 Chavín, Moche, and Nazca
8.11 The Andes
8.12 Amazonia
8.13 The Taíno and the Caribbean
8.14 Mapuche and Guaraní
8.15 Métis, Mestizos, Creoles
Part 9Europe, and the culture that overwrote them all
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