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Primates
A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of Primates.
Talks about Primates
52:52
Lucy Cooke
What can animals teach us about sex and gender?
52 minutes 52 seconds
12:41
Sarah Brosnan
Why monkeys (and humans) are wired for fairness
12 minutes 41 seconds
15:45
Frans de Waal
The surprising science of alpha males
15 minutes 45 seconds
05:31
Prosanta Chakrabarty
Four billion years of evolution in six minutes
5 minutes 31 seconds
15:01
Nina Fedoroff
A secret weapon against Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases
15 minutes 1 second
04:35
Kate Slabosky
The three different ways mammals give birth
4 minutes 35 seconds
16:25
Moshe Szyf
How early life experience is written into DNA
16 minutes 25 seconds
19:16
Carl Safina
What are animals thinking and feeling?
19 minutes 16 seconds
13:36
Colin Camerer
When you're making a deal, what's going on in your brain?
13 minutes 36 seconds
14:38
Miguel Nicolelis
A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts. No, really.
14 minutes 38 seconds
19:28
Ami Klin
A new way to diagnose autism
19 minutes 28 seconds
16:33
Frans de Waal
Moral behavior in animals
16 minutes 33 seconds
19:28
Laurie Santos
A monkey economy as irrational as ours
19 minutes 28 seconds
37:27
Robert Sapolsky
The uniqueness of humans
37 minutes 27 seconds
16:59
Elaine Morgan
I believe we evolved from aquatic apes
16 minutes 59 seconds
07:31
Dan Dennett
Cute, sexy, sweet, funny
7 minutes 31 seconds
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