Nobel Conference 2008- Robin I. M. Dunbar

Robin Dunbar speaks on social brain theory and on what it is to be human and how it is that we came to be that way, the essence of the ongoing research in the Lucy to Language project. Or, as he puts it: How it is that humans arent just great apes. Robin I. M. Dunbar is Professor, Evolutionary Anthropology; Director, Institute of Cognitive & Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Co-Director of the British Academys Centenary Research Project, Lucy to Language: The Archaeology of the Social Brain, a multidisciplinary project involving several universities, studying how the human brain evolved and the role language played.

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[NoPussyfication]

Well right here you have it. The scientific proof of why we should focus on small groups. And ultimately it deconstructs the bullshit idea of that artificial we – the nation, the republic. Here you have your scientific proof of why we were never made for that artificial we. Here is the proof for why decentralisation – without a centralised government and propaganda apparatus – is the key!

THE TIME OF THE REPUBLIC IS OVER! LET ATTIC DEMOCRACY AND IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY RULE!

[alwaysthesamedream]

I have managed to make a 15 order sentence (and yes it makes perfect sense). and I think if I try I can go up. what's the recorded limit?

awesomest lecture btw!

[oscarvenegas]

¿Qué es lo Humano?

¿Se nace humano?, ¿Nos convertimos en humanos?, ¿Somos todos humanos? ¿Cuál es la característica sine qua non?, ¿Qué significa humano en stricto sensu?, ¿Desde cuándo somos humanos? ¿Es lo humano una condición aparte de lo animal?, ¿Qué tenemos de especial, si es que lo tenemos?