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How to Tell a Human Origin Story
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How to Tell a Human Origin Story
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It's late 2023, I've finally quit my job and shed many inherited and outdated narratives. In order to find what's next, I spend time exploring the world through literature and stumble onto an article titled, "We need a modern origin story." It's by David Christian, the historian behind Big History, and reading it feels like it was written to me, about my own life. In this turning-point episode, I trace how a British boy raised in Nigeria, haunted by the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis, spent his career as a Russian historian questioning self-imposed boundaries and identities. We learn about how David's questions pushed him back and back, past nations and species and life itself, all the way to the Big Bang. The result was Big History: an attempt to use our vast scientific knowledge to tell one coherent story of where we all came from. This is a story big enough for all of us.