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As we traveled the world searching for clues to the human spark, we focused on research involving our closest genetic relatives, both living (great apes) and extinct (Neanderthals). Some of the biggest surprises we ran across stemmed from the Dog Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology<\/a> in Leipzig, Germany.<\/p>\n

In this video, Alan Alda meets with scientist Juliane Kaminski<\/a> and a very smart dog named C.J. Juliane and her colleagues investigate canines\u2019 cognitive abilities and find that dogs have some talents our much closer relatives the chimpanzees don\u2019t. Dogs don\u2019t share nearly as close a genetic link with us, but they do have one advantage \u2013 thousands of years of domestication, living in close quarters with human beings.
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\nWhat do you think these dogs\u2019 talents imply about the human spark?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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