It’s sometimes difficult to wrap our heads around the similarities that exist between Homo sapiens and other species because of a seemingly wide evolutionary gap. After all, human capability for reason, critical thought, and complex language clearly outpaces any other primate on the planet. Or does it? Stanford biologist and neurologist Robert Sapolsky argued that we really aren’t that much different from other our ape and monkey kin and that we have a lot more in common than we think. Sapolsky gave a fascinating lecture on this subject at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco this year, and used his whimsical storytelling abilities to help the audience understand human evolution.
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