{"id":230,"date":"2009-05-22T06:05:46","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T10:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/humanspark\/?p=230"},"modified":"2018-09-10T15:14:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T19:14:48","slug":"spark-blog-video-humaniqueness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/humanspark\/video\/spark-blog-video-humaniqueness\/230\/","title":{"rendered":"Spark Blog: Video: Humaniqueness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We made another stop at Harvard University\u2019s Psychology Department to talk to <a title=\"Harvard Cognitive Evolution Lab\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wjh.harvard.edu\/~mnkylab\/Home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Hauser<\/a> about his investigations into the evolutionary development of the human mind. He\u2019s coined his own term for what we\u2019ve been calling the Human Spark \u2013 humaniqueness. 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