Dave Hone

So you have the olfactory bulb at the front, and behind that you have the optic bulb or the optic lobe.

So roughly how big they are will tell you roughly how much of the brain is devoted to, for example, sight and smell.

So if it's a lot, it's pretty good.

If there's not much, it's not very good.

That goes quite a long way already.

One thing we've done in the last few years is you can also get into the, it's not shown here, I wouldn't be part of this, but the inner ear.

We can CT scan into the structure of the bony inner ear.

And from that, you can actually get an idea of what frequency of sounds the inner ear was structured to be pitched to.

Wow.

Which doesn't actually tell you very much, but it's phenomenally cool that you can do it.

We should say you also have quite a bit of a background in biology.

Yeah, my go-to one-liner is I'm a zoologist, but I work on dead stuff.

My degree was zoology.

My official job title now is reader of zoology.

I teach zoology.

I don't teach paleo.

So yeah, living animals was always actually my primary interest, and I kind of fell into paleo.

But then I wanted to drag that with me because I'd been trained in behavior and ecology, and it's what I was most interested in.

So then applying that knowledge and understanding...

Yeah.