From the turn of the 20th century, when cars first replaced the horse and the outrage that came with it, to the modern era of transitioning from the internal combustion engines to electric vehicles, Appleyard tells the story of how cars changed the world.

“You see the most evidence of reconciliation because the population in Manitoba… We were the first province, we’re the first treaty, we’re the first place where the Indian Act Policy happened, where residential schools started.” -Niigaan Sinclair

For a second year course on evolutionary psychology we were required to read Darwin’s classic On the Origin of Species. This was an essay I wrote describing my experience with the book. Written in January, 2019