What stands out when you think of key human traits? From basic urges like eating and sleeping, to the complex desires to innovate and engineer, our biology has fuelled human progress. But we are also impeded by it, and history has played out in the grey zone between helping and hindering.
Dan is joined by Lewis Dartnell, a research scientist, presenter and author of 'Being Human: How Our Biology Shaped World History', to explain how the human story has been shaped by our biology.
Produced by James Hickmann and edited by Dougal Patmore.
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