In this talk, Dr. Dean Falk challenges the idea that stone tools and hunting were the driving forces behind early human brain evolution. Instead, she proposes that botanic inventions such as baskets, combined with the development of bipedalism, significantly shaped human cognition and culture over millions of years.

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