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52:49
Lucy Cooke
What can animals teach us about sex and gender?
Posted
Jul 2022
12:51
Sarah Brosnan
Why monkeys (and humans) are wired for fairness
Posted
Dec 2020
15:54
Frans de Waal
The surprising science of alpha males
Posted
Jun 2018
5:41
Prosanta Chakrabarty
Four billion years of evolution in six minutes
Posted
Jun 2018
15:10
Nina Fedoroff
A secret weapon against Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases
Posted
May 2017
4:35
Kate Slabosky
The three different ways mammals give birth
Posted
Apr 2017
16:35
Moshe Szyf
How early life experience is written into DNA
Posted
Mar 2017
19:26
Carl Safina
What are animals thinking and feeling?
Posted
Nov 2015
13:49
Colin Camerer
When you're making a deal, what's going on in your brain?
Posted
Mar 2013
14:55
Miguel Nicolelis
A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts. No, really.
Posted
Feb 2013
19:37
Ami Klin
A new way to diagnose autism
Posted
Jun 2012
16:52
Frans de Waal
Moral behavior in animals
Posted
Apr 2012
19:45
Laurie Santos
A monkey economy as irrational as ours
Posted
Jul 2010
37:27
Robert Sapolsky
The uniqueness of humans
Posted
Jan 2010
17:13
Elaine Morgan
I believe we evolved from aquatic apes
Posted
Jul 2009
7:45
Dan Dennett
Cute, sexy, sweet, funny
Posted
Mar 2009
23:46
Jane Goodall
How humans and animals can live together
Posted
Sep 2008
15:36
Louise Leakey
A dig for humanity's origins
Posted
Jul 2008
27:25
Jane Goodall
What separates us from chimpanzees?
Posted
Apr 2007
17:25
Susan Savage-Rumbaugh
The gentle genius of bonobos
Posted
Apr 2007
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