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Prologue and Dawn

• Hands and arms come to life before we wake. Wilson plans to show the physical roots of human creative work.

• He shows the anthropological and evolutionary views, bio mechanical and physiological characteristics, and neuro behavioral and developmental perspectives.

• Wilson argues that the human brain is permanently immature but that people are born resourceful and with experience become skillful and thoughtful.

• "Lucy" lived 3.2 millions years ago. Her hand is not ape-like, but her brain is the size of a chimpanzee brain.

• That the brain and musculoskeletal systems evolve by changing structure and function over time distinguishes a tool-using hominid.

• Bipedal gait and upper arm changes and the driving force of the hominid's brain also distinguish tool-using hominids.
• Wilson claims, though, that the brain is the last organ to evolve after the hominids become tool users.

• Brain and behavior evolves from primitive tool use like rock-pounding and...

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