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Ep67 "How did human brains get runaway intelligence? "

Ep67 "How did human brains get runaway intelligence? "

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We're the single species who composes symphonies, erects skyscrapers, builds computers, and regularly gets off the planet. But how did human intelligence evolve from our ancestors in the animal kingdom? And now that our species is scintillatingly shrewd, what does a knowledge of our road mean as we work to build intelligence artificially? Join Eagleman this week with Max Bennett, an especially smart human who illuminates a path through the 600 million year story of brain power in his book "A Brief History of Intelligence".

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Ep67 "How did human brains get runaway intelligence? "

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