Matt Brown Show

What makes the human mind so unique? And how did we get this way?This fascinating podcast explores the three leaps in our history that made us what we are—and will change how you think about our future.Look around. Clearly, we humans are radically different from the other creatures on this planet. But why? Where are the Bronze Age beavers? The Iron Age iguanas? In Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think, Byron Reese argues that we owe our special status to our ability to imagine the future and recall the past, escaping the perpetual present that all other living creatures are trapped in.  Support the show