► Why do the origins of pre-human types get earlier and earlier, now at 3-5 million years ago?
► What are the main factors that contribute to the precariousness of human existence since its beginning?
► How relevant is brain size to abstract thinking and language sophistication?
► Why is race an imprecise term?
► Why is it believed that women have superior status to men in the Stone Age?
► What is the role of major waterways in the beginnings of civilization along the Nile and the Yangtze Rivers?
► What is the relationship of war to class society and slavery?
► How does the invention of the plow which revolutionizes agriculture change society from matriarchal to patriarchal?
► What structures made over 3,000 years ago contained 2,300,000 stones each weighing 2-1/2 tons?
► What is the evidence that brain surgery is practiced in ancient Egypt?
► What are the features of Stonehenge in Southeast England that reflect the math and science genius of human brain power?