Home Is Where the Brain Is

There’s no place like home – or at least, that’s what our minds tell us. 

John S. Allen, neuroanthropologist and research scientist at the University of Southern California, research associate in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University, Bloomington, and the author of Home: How Habitat Made Us Human (Basic Books, 2015), talks about new theories that put having homes at the core of human evolution.

.@GinaWFox Yes, which for the typical American means only 18 miles away, according to @UpshotNYT: https://t.co/g7ZRsS5uyl

— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) January 8, 2016

@BrianLehrer Rental lease.

— Doug Lenox (@douglenox) January 8, 2016

@BrianLehrer Having moved a bit as a kid and now adult, I always felt home is where your stuff is (like the camper's kit just mentioned).

— Vicky Ludas Orlofsky (@vwlo) January 8, 2016

@BrianLehrer Couch

— P. Hand (@PatHandberg) January 8, 2016

@BrianLehrer cat

— sparnon (@sparnon) January 8, 2016

@BrianLehrer Wifi

— John #FreeRick (@ComicNeue) January 8, 2016