"Homo sapiens may be as much socialus as sapiens."
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Charles Brown
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stix-origins-what-makes-humans-special-video/?&WT.mc_id=SA_EVO_20140908
What Makes Humans Special? [Video]
Psychologist/primatologist Michael Tomasello explains
Homo sapiens may be as much socialus as sapiens. See what I mean in my
article, “The It Factor,” in the September Scientific American, which
describes how chimpanzees and children just a bit beyond their second
birthdays have about the same level of certain types of cognition—the
kind of quantitative and spatial reasoning abilities that typically
appear on IQ tests.
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CB: I've been saying for years that human species name should be "homo
socialis" or "homo communis". It's in the archives.
What Makes Humans Special? [Video]
Psychologist/primatologist Michael Tomasello explains
Homo sapiens may be as much socialus as sapiens. See what I mean in my
article, “The It Factor,” in the September Scientific American, which
describes how chimpanzees and children just a bit beyond their second
birthdays have about the same level of certain types of cognition—the
kind of quantitative and spatial reasoning abilities that typically
appear on IQ tests.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
CB: I've been saying for years that human species name should be "homo
socialis" or "homo communis". It's in the archives.
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