Scientific American Sep 2018

September 2018 ScientificAmerican.com 39 potent capacities for social learning and teaching as theoretical and experimental data ...

18th century 3 rd millennium B.C. H UMANS DEMONSTRATE not only an extraordinary capacity for transferring knowledge from one gen ...

15th century 17 th century 13th century 3rd century A.D. 2nd century B.C. (Han Dynasty) CAM Protrusions known as cams situated o ...

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September 2018 ScientificAmerican.com 43 INSIDE OUR HEADS TWO KEY FEATURES CREATED THE HUMAN MIND BY T AS S DDEND R :: ILLUSTR ...

44 Scientific American September 2018 Last year to name just one example a study pub- lished in Science boldly claimed that rave ...

Graphic by Federica Fragapane September 2018 ScientificAmerican.com 45 We found that the children could intentionally shape thei ...

46 Scientific American September 20 18 to show a group of chimpanzees and orangutans a vertical tube and drop a reward at the to ...

September 2018 ScientificAmerican.com 47 that second characteristic: connecting our minds. Psychologist Michael Tomasello has de ...

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September 2018 ScientificAmerican.com 49 BY S SAN BLA RE :: ILLUSTRATION BY VICTO NGAI THE HARDEST PROBLEM DECODING THE PUZZL ...

50 Scientific American September 2018 The question is hard because although your own consciousness may seem the most obvious thi ...

September 2018 ScientificAmerican.com 51 swoggle problem” that obfuscates the issue. Either consciousness just is the activity ...

52 Scientific American September 2018 Many scientists including Francis Crick and more recently British neuroscientist Anil Seth ...

September 2018 ScientificAmerican.com 53 that because we are obviously conscious conscious- ness must have a function such as di ...

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September 2018 ScientificAmerican.com 55 TA L K I NG THROUGH TIME BY RISTINE ENNEALLY :: ILLUSTRATION BY VICTO NGAI WHAT MAKE ...

56 Scientific American September 2018 Only humans can perform this spectacular time- traveling feat just as only humans can pene ...

September 2018 ScientificAmerican.com 57 wired into humanity’s DNA. We have looked for a critical biological event that brough ...

58 Scientific American September 20 18 GENETIC CODE THE LIST OF ABILITIES that were formerly thought to be a unique part of huma ...