Jane Goodall: What separates us from the apes?
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http://www.ted.com Jane Goodall hasn't found the missing link, but she's come closer than nearly anyone else. The primatologist says the only real difference between humans and chimps is our sophisticated language. She urges us to start using it to change the world. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the T... Read more
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- -: Jane Goodall: What separates us from the apes?
May 16, 2007 (almost 17 years ago)http://www.ted.com Jane Goodall hasn't found the missing link, but she's come closer than nearly anyone else. The primatologist says the only real difference between humans and chimps is our sophisticated language. She urges us to start using it to change the world. TEDTalks is a daily video pod...
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- -: Darwinian Evolution on Display in Chimp Group Raids
April 2, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/03/24/Ask_a_Scientist_Sex_and_War Professor Malcolm Potts, coauthor of Sex and War, shows video of an aggressive group of male chimpanzees attacking a lone chimp from a neighboring troop. Potts says this is what "Darwinian evolution is all about." ----- W...
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- -: Sexual Aggression and Risk Taking: Are We That Different from Chimps?
April 3, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/03/24/Ask_a_Scientist_Sex_and_War Professor Malcolm Potts, coauthor of Sex and War, compares the biological similarities exhibited in the risk taking behavior of male chimpanzees and humans. ----- Why is it that humans, nearly unique in this regard, have ...
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- -: Did Chimps and Humans Inherit Common Social Behaviors?
December 20, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/10/15/Dr_Anne_Pusey_The_Leakey_Foundation Anne Pusey discusses how female chimpanzees leave the communities in which they were born upon reaching adolescence, a habit likely developed to avoid inbreeding. Sharing similarities to many human societies, does t...
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- -: What Separates Us from Chimps? As It Turns Out, Not Much
February 26, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/02/15/Robert_Sapolsky_Are_Humans_Just_Another_Primate Neurologist Robert Sapolsky explores the genetic differences between humans and chimps, and describes the few genes that make our species unique. Our two species share over ninety-eight percent of the sa...
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Zeresenay Alemseged: Looking for Humanity's Roots
June 1, 2007 (almost 17 years ago)Zeresenay Alemseged, an Ethiopian paleoanthropologist, talks about his discoveries on the earliest human fossils and how they help in the study of evolution. He also challenges the current situation we have in Africa and hopes for a better future legacy.
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