Carl Zimmer

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Philosophers and scientists once believed that the human soul resided in the heart. In Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World, Carl Zimmer explains the evolving metaphysics of the soul.
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