The 2009 Rhind Lectures, entitled “New Light on the Dawn: a new perspective on the Neolithic Revolution in Southwest Asia” and presented by Emeritus Professor Trevor Watkins, Honorary Professorial Fellow of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, were the first to be recorded by the Society. 2009 Rhind Lecture 5: “Evolutionary context: the emergence of the modern human mind” by Prof Trevor Watkins Recorded in the Royal Society of Edinburgh auditorium at 2pm on 5th April 2009 using Camtasia software from Techsmith