Primitive Pen

Human history, evolution, anthropology and psychology, explained in hand-drawn doodle animation.

Every video starts with something ordinary you do without thinking, then traces it back through the research to where it actually came from. Why you point. Why you can't sleep through the night. What your ancestors talked about after dark. The answers come from real studies and named researchers, told in plain language, in about twelve minutes.

You already carry most of this around with you. The videos just show you where it came from.

New video every week. Subscribe if you like finding out that the strangest thing about being human is how normal it feels.