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Exploring the Hearts of our Chimp and Gorilla Cousins with Dr Rob Shave | S1E15
Can’t listen? Read the transcript below! Gerry: Your heart. You never think about that endless rhythm unless it skips a beat. The human heart is said to be the hardest working muscle in the body, but how did that extraordinary muscle evolve? The average adult heart beats seventy two times a minute, a hundred…
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Cooking and our Closest Cousins with Dr. Richard Wrangham | S1E13
Can’t listen? Read the transcript below….. Dr. Richard Wrangham: Once you are able to control fire to the point where you can use it both to cook and to keep yourself warm, that means that you are shifting from a chimpanzee-like animal to a human-like animal. Gerry Ellis: Welcome to talking Apes….
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Bonobos and Survival of the Friendliest with Dr Brian Hare | S1E1
You can read the transcript for this episode below Gerry: Have you ever thought about how friendly you are or how your self-domestication is coming along? And what if kids, not adults, males or females, swayed the tides of power ranking in society? For answers to those and many more questions about who…
