Animal Instinct




Big Picture Science show

Summary: <p><span class="caps">ENCORE</span> Mooooove over, make way for the cows, the chickens … and other animals! Humans can learn a lot from our hairy, feathered, four-legged friends. We may wear suits and play Sudoku, but <i>Homo sapiens</i> are primates just the same. We’ve met the animal, and it is us.</p> <p>Discover the surprising similarity between our diseases and those that afflict other animals, including pigs that develop eating disorders. Plus, what the octopus can teach us about national security … how monkeying around evolved into human speech … and the origins of moral behavior in humans. </p> <h2>Guests:</h2> <ul> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.environment.arizona.edu/rafe-sagarin">Rafe Sagarin</a></strong> – Marine ecologist, Institute of the Environment, University of Arizona, author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465021832/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0465021832&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=arweal-20">Learning From the Octopus: How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters, and Disease</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=arweal-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0465021832" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style=""></i> </li> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.uclahealth.org/body.cfm?id=479&amp;action=detail&amp;ref=11288">Barbara Natterson-Horowitz</a></strong> – Professor of cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, <span class="caps">UCLA</span>, and co-author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307593487/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0307593487&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=arweal-20">Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=arweal-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0307593487" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style=""></i> </li> <li> <strong>Kathryn Bowers</strong> – Writer, co-author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307593487/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0307593487&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=arweal-20">Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=arweal-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0307593487" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style=""></i> </li> <li> <strong><a href="http://psych.princeton.edu/psychology/research/ghazanfar/index.php">Asif Ghazanfar </a></strong> – Neuroscientist, psychologist, Princeton University</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1003114">Christopher Boehm </a></strong> – Biological and cultural anthropologist at the University of Southern California, director of the Jane Goodall Research Center, author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465020488/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0465020488&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=arweal-20">Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=arweal-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0465020488" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style=""></i> </li> </ul><p><strong><a href="http://www.seti.cl/podcast-del-instituto-seti-instinto-animal/">Descripción en español</a></strong></p> <p>First released July 9, 2012</p>