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What Makes Humans Unique? [Video]

Robert Sapolsky explores how humans are like other animals as well as what sets us apart from them

By Kate Wong















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In the September issue of Scientific American, Robert Sapolsky of Stanford University writes about how aspiring to overcome our evolutionary limits distinguishes humans from other creatures. For more on what makes humans unique—and how, in other ways, we're not alone—check out this video of a lecture he gave at Stanford a few years ago.



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