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Thursday, September 11, 2014

What Makes Humans Special? [Video]

may be as much as See what I mean in my article, in the September which describes how chimpanzees and children just a bit beyond their second birthdays have about the same level of certain types of cognition—the kind of quantitative and spatial reasoning abilities that typically appear on IQ tests.


The psychologist/primatologist who spearheaded this research is of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Watch Tomasello describe his work during a made in conjunction with his reception of the .


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