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Ch. 4 - How to make us human

#107: April - May 2012 (Non-Fiction)
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Dexter - the video looked fascinating but much too long for me to watch via the site. Do you think you could just post the youtube address and then I can download it quickly through the downloader?
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heledd wrote:Dexter - the video looked fascinating but much too long for me to watch via the site. Do you think you could just post the youtube address and then I can download it quickly through the downloader?
You should be able to click on the title of the video to take you to YouTube, here's the link for part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEnkY2iaKis
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I agree with the author that babies 'actually know quite a bit about the world as soon as they arrived in it'... I was also reading ages ago about the differences in the brains of new born males and females, with girls being more observant of faces, while boys tended to concentrate more on mechanical objects. I can't remember the name of the book, but there is a similar article on
http://www.squidoo.com/malefemalebrain
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