SOMETIME in the distant past our ancestors’ brains grew sophisticated enough to ponder life’s big questions. In this book, Dean Falk explains how the study of those ancient brains – or at least, the impressions they left in the skulls they occupied – may help to provide an answer to one of the biggest questions: where did we come from?
Falk was a key member of the team that studied the brain impression of Homo floresiensis, or the “Hobbit”, discovered in Indonesia in 2003. She is now central to an ongoing controversy over whether that brain belonged to a distant relation…
