[lbo-talk] "Homo sapiens may be as much socialus as sapiens."

Charles Brown cb31450 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 8 13:26:26 PDT 2014


http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stix-origins-what-makes-humans-special-video/?&WT.mc_id=SA_EVO_20140908

What Makes Humans Special? [Video]

Psychologist/primatologist Michael Tomasello explains

Homo sapiens may be as much socialus as sapiens. See what I mean in my article, “The It Factor,” in the September Scientific American, which describes how chimpanzees and children just a bit beyond their second birthdays have about the same level of certain types of cognition—the kind of quantitative and spatial reasoning abilities that typically appear on IQ tests.


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CB: I've been saying for years that human species name should be "homo socialis" or "homo communis". It's in the archives.



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