Mel Andrews is a philosopher of mind, biology, and cognitive science and a graduate of Tufts University. Mel hopes to answer one really big question: how did entities with experience, agency, and knowledge, like you and me, come to exist out of fundamentally inanimatematerial, like dirt? Mel is a published scholar, and has presented at national and international conferences. Alongside her friend Maximus Thaler, Mel runs an online course on new topics in evolutionary theory.