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  • Human Spark

The Human Spark | Brain Matters | Social Networks | PBS

Duration: 02:47
Program: Human Spark #103
Broadcast Date: Jan. 20, 2010

At Oxford University, Alan Alda finds out from Robin Dunbar how human social networks compare to those of chimps, and at Yale University, watches babies as young as three months old pick cooperative puppets over those that won't play.

In "The Human Spark," Alan Alda visits dozens of scientists on three continents -- and even undergoes an examination of his own brain -- to find the answer to one question: What makes us human?

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Post Date: January 14, 2010