Scientists Have Found the First Branch on the Tree of Life
In chapter two, we trace the beginnings of the Animal Kingdom in a Tree of Life. Almost all animals on earth derive from a single branch...
Where Imagination Lives in Your Brain
A new Scientific American article sheds new light on a subject that is particularly important to artists: what parts of our brain are...
A mysterious human species may have been the first to bury their dead
By chapter 7, we finally encountered modern Homo sapiens sapiens, and remarked that the redundancy in the name came from the fact that...
The shape of your brain may strongly influence your thoughts and behavior
In chapter ten, we marveled at the number of neuronic connections in the brain-86 million! Researchers have always placed a great...