Human Spark » mind http://www.pbs.org/wnet/humanspark Alan Alda visits scientists to find the answer to one question: What makes us human? Mon, 09 May 2011 20:19:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Spark Blog: Video: Humaniqueness http://www.pbs.org/wnet/humanspark/video/spark-blog-video-humaniqueness/230/ http://www.pbs.org/wnet/humanspark/video/spark-blog-video-humaniqueness/230/#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 10:05:46 +0000 tanner vea http://www.pbs.org/wnet/humanspark/?p=230 We made another stop at Harvard University’s Psychology Department to talk to Marc Hauser about his investigations into the evolutionary development of the human mind. He’s coined his own term for what we’ve been calling the Human Spark – humaniqueness. We human beings are so closely related to other animals as far as genes are concerned, but our abilities seem to far outpace those of other intelligent animals.

Watch Hauser explain to Alan Alda his concept of humaniqueness – and how we can draw on a multitude of talents to solve a problem, whereas other species are limited to just a few.


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