About This Course What made our species succeed? Why did we grow our own food? Why did we start to …
What made our species succeed? Why did we grow our own food? Why did we start to settle in towns? How did we escape the high child mortality and poverty of many subsistence farmers? Will we run out of resources? Can we escape disaster? What’s in our future? That’s what we’ll explore in this short course, The Evolution of Civilization.
Because the Industrial Revolution was so important, we’ll spend much of our time on it: including what led to it, and what it led to. The course has four parts: Module 1: Homo sapiens in training, Module 2: Breakout, Module 3: Success, Module 4: Change and the future.
There are no prerequisites. Anyone is able to take this course.
I’m Larry Baum. I’m a neuroscientist at The University of Hong Kong, where I teach a Common Core course on The Evolution of Civilization. I’m not a historian, or an economist, or a public health scientist, but I try to use these and other fields to briefly tell part of the human story.
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