We no longer share the ancient Chinese belief that the world hatched from an egg, but are we really any wiser than our ancestors? Science may not solve our existential puzzles, but like the age-old legends, its discoveries can help us continue the never-ending search. Reawakening our sense of wonder, Oren Harman uses modern science to create new and original mythologies. Here are the earth and the moon presenting a cosmological view of motherhood, a panicking mitochondrion introducing sex and death to the world, the loneliness of consciousness emerging from the memory of an octopus, and the birth of language.