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The Uniqueness of Humans |
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On June 13, 2009, Robert Sapolsky, world renowned professor of neurology, neurological sciences, neurosurgery and biological sciences gave the class day lecture in association with commencement weekend 2009. Having been selected to talk by the Stanford University graduating class, Sapolsky spoke abo...
Date: 2012-07-29 17:09:32
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Bruce H Lipton, PhD "Fractal Wisdom" |
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International best-selling author Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D., is a former medical school professor at the University of Wisconsin and research scientist at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He is a pioneer in the revolutionary field of epigenetics, the new science of how environment, perceptio...
Date: 2012-06-24 15:21:47
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Daniel Wolpert: The real reason for brains |
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Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert starts from a surprising premise the brain evolved, not to think or feel, but to control movement. In this entertaining, data-rich talk he gives us a glimpse into how the brain creates the grace and agility of human motion.
Date: 2012-05-04 03:07:43
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Neanderthal Genes Found in Modern Humans |
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Dr. Jean-Jacques Hublin of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology details a recent and curious discovery of a possible genetic integration between Neanderthals and modern humans around 60,000 years ago.
Date: 2011-12-22 20:25:30
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Documentary: Did Cooking Make Us Human? |
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We are the only species on earth that cooks its food – and we are also the cleverest species on the planet.
The question is: do we cook because we’re clever and imaginative, or are we clever and imaginative because our ancestors discovered cooking?
Horizon examines the evidence that our ancest
Date: 2011-07-31 18:32:23
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Documentary: The Day We Learned To Think (BBC) |
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Understanding of humans' earliest past often comes from studying fossils. They tell us much of what we know about the people who lived before us. There is one thing fossils cannot tell us; at what point did we stop living day-to-day and start to think symbolically, to represent ideas about our envir...
Date: 2011-07-25 01:06:09
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