S1E62 - A Paleontology Of The Future: What We Will Leave Behind
Published: June 21, 2026
Duration: 55:25
What will humanity leave behind?
In this episode, Professor Hannah Fry and VSauce's Michael Stevens explore the traces humans leave behind and what those traces reveal about how we think.
From Tranquility Base, where humanity's first footprints on another world still sit undisturbed in lunar dust, to a three million year old pebble that may represent one of the earliest signs of symbolic thought, they uncover how ordinary objects can become extraordinary windows into our past.
Why would one of our ancestors carry a...