Humans Evolved but Are Still Special
Science Talk
Scientific American
4.2 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2018
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming. |
| 0:02.3 | Hiya. |
| 0:02.9 | So, Benny has really blossomed this term. |
| 0:05.6 | You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay. |
| 0:09.6 | Oh, that's not quite what I meant. |
| 0:11.1 | It's free to sell on there? |
| 0:12.3 | Free to sell? |
| 0:13.4 | Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket. |
| 0:16.8 | You sold my guitar? |
| 0:19.9 | Shall we talk about Benning? |
| 0:22.1 | When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay. |
| 0:26.7 | Things people love. |
| 0:28.0 | T's and Cs apply. |
| 0:29.1 | Exclusive vehicles. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on April 30th, 2018. |
| 0:36.5 | I'm Steve Murski. |
| 0:37.9 | On this episode, |
| 0:38.8 | the very fact that we contemplate and we debate our own uniqueness makes us unique. |
| 0:45.7 | And that is what authors who have tried to make human beings just another species of no more |
| 0:51.8 | significance than any other, that's what they're missing. |
| 0:54.6 | That's Ken Miller. He's professor of biology at Brown University. He's known for a couple of |
| 0:59.4 | his previous books, Only a Theory and Finding Darwin's God. And his new book is called The Human |
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