New developments on Oldowan tools
Scientists continue to make advances in identifying the first human tools-and it turns out they may not be human at all! Here's the CBS...
How do we make all those colors with our mouths?
In chapter 5 we encounter the incredible case of the descending larynx. This marvelous evolutionary adaptation allows us a much greater...
The function of the basal ganglia
The basal ganglia, which we first met in Chapter 3, has been around since the tetrapods, but its function has always been a bit of a...
A prehistoric whodunnit!
It's long been argued that one of the major evolutionary developments attributed solely to the Homo genus is the development of tools,...