Scientific American - September 2018

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

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

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

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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 :: ...

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

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

46 Scientific American, September 2018 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 d ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

58 Scientific American, September 2018 GENETIC CODE THE LIST OF ABILITIES that were formerly thought to be a unique part of huma ...