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Kanopy
The Human Journey
Summary
Taught by award-winning science writer Gaia Vince, this course covers a 300,000-year history of humans as a migrating species. While our ape cousins have stayed in the environments where they evolved, we have been on the move—eventually populating the globe. How and why? This course also takes you into the future, when millions of people will be migrating to escape the effects of climate change.Gaia Vince is an award-winning science writer and broadcaster. In 2015, she became the first solo female author to win the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books—now known as the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize—for her book Adventures in the Anthropocene. She is an honorary senior research fellow with the multidisciplinary Anthropocene initiative at University College London and the author of Transcendence and Nomad Century. She has held senior editorial positions at Nature and New Scientist and writes for the BBC, Science, The Guardian, and other publications.