Name: Homo sapiens: Why did evolution favour the brainy ape?
Uploaded: 2020-04-28T12:20:00+01:00
Description: Being intelligent has allowed our species to conquer the world. Mark Maslin explains why evolution favoured an unusually brainy ape.

Homo sapiens: Why did evolution favour the brainy ape?

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Being intelligent has allowed our species to conquer the world. Mark Maslin explains why evolution favoured an unusually brainy ape.

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evolution /
palaeontology /
human intelligence /
climate /
human evolution /
humans /
New Scientist Live talks 2019 /
intelligence

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