Pilot Lecture: The Developing Brain

Course Overview

Fast-forward through a human lifespan for a revealing look at how our brains grow and change throughout our lives. Trace the evolutionary history of humans and how the modern world and its technologies affect how our brains develop.

Course Lectures

01: The Developing Brain

Measured nucleotide by nucleotide, the human genome is nearly 99% identical to that of the chimpanzee. So why don’t we live in trees? Professor Gabrielle Principe takes us back 2 million years to learn how the choices we made back then have kept our species alive, and how the modern world and its technologies continue to affect how our brains develop.

Duration: 35 min