What Makes Us Human Part I: Others

Big Picture Science

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🗓️ 13 September 2010

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Are humans unique or do we just do some things a little better than other species? In the first of our two-part series on the nature of humanity: how the influence of others has shaped our evolution. Find out how baby talk gave root to human language and why social isolation can make us sick. Plus, the joke’s on us – new research says we’re not the only laughing species: meet your giggling gorilla cousins. And, what a writer’s visit to a chimp retirement center revealed about human discomfort with our animal ancestry. Dean Falk - Anthropologist at Florida State University and author of Finding Our Tongues: Mothers, Infants, and the Origins of Language John Cacioppo - Director of the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago and co-author of Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection Lori Marino - Biologist at Emory University Kathryn Denning - Anthropologist at York University Charles Siebert - Author of The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward a New Understanding of Animals Marina Davila-Ross - Psychologist at the University of Portsmouth in the U.K. Descripción en español Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:58.0	That's Tech Crunch Daily Crunch, wherever you get your podcasts. us human. Our placement in the evolutionary tree gives a clue at least for cataloging ourselves.
1:15.0	We are members of the species of bipedal primates from the family homididae.
1:19.0	The genus, that's genus, not genius, is Homo, and we're the only non-extinct species of that genus.
1:25.1	And that species is sapiens. Homo sapiens is wise or knowing man in Latin.
1:30.4	And throw in another sapiens because that's our subspecies.
1:33.8	We're Homo sapiens sapiens.
1:35.6	Wise, wise man.
1:36.8	Hmm, I really am a wise guy.
1:39.4	But what makes us Homo sapiens sapiens?
1:41.6	Why are human beings unique? On the one hand you'd think
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