Uploaded December 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Ian Tattersall, Melanie Chang and Simon Conway Morris discuss how symbolic reasoning gave humans an advantage over neanderthals.

This is an excerpt from "The Story of Life: Critical Insights from Evolutionary Biology" recorded on December 7, 2017 at The New York Academy of Sciences. For the video of the complete discussion, see: youtu.be/NSn6ysjlfpY