What Makes Us Human Part II: Adaptability

Published: Sept. 20, 2010, 3 a.m.

b"Are humans unique or do we just do some things a little better than other species? In the second of our two-part series \\u2013 how our ability to adapt has shaped our evolution.\\nFind out how throwing a burger on the grill has transformed our species\\u2026 the 1% genetic difference that separate us from chimps\\u2026 why we\\u2019re poorly adapted and stressed out \\u2026 and why human evolution is not only on the move, but picking up the pace.\\n\\n\\nRichard Wrangham - Biological anthropologist at Harvard University and author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human\\n\\n\\n\\nKatherine Pollard - Biostatistician at the Gladstone Institutes at the University of California, San Francisco\\n\\n\\nRobert Sapolsky - Biological scientist at Stanford University and neurologist at Stanford\\u2019s School of Medicine. Author of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Third Edition and, more recently, Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals\\n\\n\\n\\nGregory Cochran - Anthropologist at the University of Utah and co-author of The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nDescripci\\xf3n en espa\\xf1ol\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"