Click above to listen to part 1 of Skeptic Check: Rational Lampoon, featuring Laurance Doyle, scientist at the SETI Institute, discussing how apes and other intelligent animals learn from others and pass down knowledge through the generations.
Skeptic Check: Rational Lampoon
Part 1: Laurance Doyle / Ape Aping
Part 2: Steve Sloman / Collective “Knowledge”
Part 3: Robert Sapolsky / Us vs. Them
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Big Picture Science is an immersive radio show and podcast that reveals the unexpected connections in science.
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Molly Bentley Executive Producer and Co-Host, Big Picture Science
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Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute
