The Human Family Lecture 2

One characteristic that all human species shared was a large brain. For example, a pig weighing 133 pounds has a brain size of 200 cc. A modern human weighing the same has a brain size of 1200-1400 cc. The brain is not only awkward to carry around, but it requires a lot of food/energy intake. While only weighing about 2% of the total body weight requires 25% of the total food/energy consumed....

February 15, 2023

The Human Family Lecture 1

In the first section of the Coursea course Dr Harami started with the timeline of everything. About 13 billion years ago was the Big Bang where matter came into being. Physics examines how matter, energy, time, and space interact. About 300,000 years after that matter and energy started combining to form atoms which then formed complex molecules and this becomes Chemistry. About 4 billion years ago even more complex structures started to form call organisms “living” which is Biology....

February 14, 2023

Brief History Introduction

Brief History is a course that I took taught by Dr. Yuval Noah Harari back around 2013 and since then a book “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” was produced and has been translated into several languages. It is about human history from around 70,000 years ago to the 21st Century. As Dr Harami himself says it is both superficial and controversial. The course is divided into 20 segments and even with the book there is no way that it can explore any subject in any detail....

February 11, 2023