Chapter 1: Making the Senses

Humans have always possessed the finely tuned arts of vision, hearing, smell, taste and touch. Any person questioning that may as well question the shape of our planet. So how could there possibly have been any changes over time for what we consider to be the basic human senses? Much like it took us some time to figure out that the Earth is round, we needed some thinking time before we could ponder over the nature of our tools of perception. As we move through subsequent chapters, we will explore how each of these senses biologically evolved, but for now let us instead delve into how we humans made the very idea of the sensory systems come to life in the first place…