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While our closest animal relatives have been swinging from the trees, humans have built a world that is vastly more complex. What are the defining features that have allowed us to do this? Are we special, and separate from all other animals, or are we just an especially successful mammal? Warning for the easily faint, there will be a real human brain examined.

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  • Date 4/2/2008 9:37:35 AM
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boldfart : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

boldfart

3 votes NegativePositive

112 days 18 hours ago...

Nice find Phat, thanks.

phatryde : LVL 31: VP 4: said:

phatryde

4 votes NegativePositive

112 days 17 hours ago...

Your welcome Bold, hope everyone enjoys this.

Update: The second part is found on related media it is called "What makes us Human – Part 2 – “Copy Cats”" it is also located in my profile uploads.

I like the discussion going on here so far. My favorite part is 31:27 when they discuss Shakespear`s Othello with Robert Dunbar an Evolutionary Psychologist.

LastCaucasian : LVL 28: VP 3.7: said:

LastCaucasian

-4 votes NegativePositive

112 days 7 hours ago...

So that`s why I like climbing trees and throwing my poo at strangers.

The Trunk Monkey : LVL 11: VP 2: said:

The Trunk Monkey

2 votes NegativePositive

110 days 14 hours ago...

This is brilliant. It`s a question that I`ve always found fascinating. For some reason my computer isn`t liking the google video too much though.

And...Quick question, that is totally unrelated to this... Forum registration is down, no image verification shows up! Who do I complain to?

flying_spaghetti_monster : LVL 10: VP 1.9: said:

flying_spaghetti_monster

0 votes NegativePositive

110 days 13 hours ago...

What makes us special is our brain`s neocortical region...consisting of millions, if not billions of grey-matter neurons. Neanderthals had bigger brains and were capable of creating stone tools for hunting, but they lacked the essential component (neocortex)that makes humans capable of high faculty thought. This perhaps explains why homo sapiens were the first to create language - the prerequisite for advanced human cultures. Elephants have bigger brains but what really matters is the brain to body mass ratio, which is most pronounced in humans. Chimpanzees and bonobos are our closest relatives, and we share much in common with them...but they simply lack the neural architecture that would enable them to think beyond immediate, low faculty concerns such as caring for their young or procuring food.

sstarscreamrab : LVL 26: VP 3.5: said:

sstarscreamrab

1 votes NegativePositive

110 days 13 hours ago...

nice upload, you should upload the next episode as well. 5/5

Taylornator : LVL 29: VP 3.8: said:

Taylornator

2 votes NegativePositive

110 days 12 hours ago...

^ Flying spaghetti all i have to say to you is:

http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/144154/Bonobos-TED-talks.html

That is all.

LeighCedar : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

LeighCedar

1 votes NegativePositive

110 days 12 hours ago...

Also flyingspagh,

Chimps are known to form patrol groups to chase off, or even murder other male chimps not part of their immediate group.. This seems like fore planning as I understand it.

Awesome programme. I wish we got stuff like this on BAsic cable :(

PursuedLeader : LVL 31: VP 4: said:

PursuedLeader

-2 votes NegativePositive

110 days 11 hours ago...

Parasites

watersnake6 : LVL 25: VP 3.4: said:

watersnake6

1 votes NegativePositive

110 days 11 hours ago...

5/5 I would have never seen something this informative in the states grats I salute you.

The Trunk Monkey : LVL 11: VP 2: said:

The Trunk Monkey

3 votes NegativePositive

110 days 10 hours ago...

The only way you`d see this in the states if it was re-aired on PBS. We lack decent programming here... NG, History Channel, and Discovery are good starts though.

bangzilla : LVL 30: VP 3.9: said:

bangzilla

-2 votes NegativePositive

110 days 9 hours ago...

for fucks sake you fags,
do we have to change every video into a religious debate?
just sit back and enjoy the vid you fucks

Kugh : LVL 42: VP 5: said:

Kugh

0 votes NegativePositive

110 days 9 hours ago...

^ lol so true

The Trunk Monkey : LVL 11: VP 2: said:

The Trunk Monkey

0 votes NegativePositive

110 days 6 hours ago...

wtf, I don`t see a single person turning this into a religious debate. Did you see FSM and automatically assume that?

LeighCedar : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

LeighCedar

1 votes NegativePositive

110 days 2 hours ago...

^ That sounds like something a religious debater would say, Trunk Monkey!


History channel and Discovery are pretty good, but the is a lot of poorly produced schlock made for the casual audiences for both channels as well.

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