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Do Infants Understand Others as Mental Agents and Communicate Meaningfully Before They Acquire Language?
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(Latest Thinking, 2017), 9 mins
How do humans understand each other? One unique aspect is the evolution of more than six thousand languages on earth. In order to use language meaningfully a certain social cognitive infrastructure is needed. This infrastructure turns out to be prior to the acquisition of language in humans. The research presented...
(Latest Thinking, 2017), 9 mins
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Do Kea Birds Have Cooperative Abilities?
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(Latest Thinking, 2017), 11 mins
The ability to cooperate with each other has given humans one of the key advantages in the colonization of this planet. What about other species? Do they have cooperative abilities as well? RUSSELL GRAY and his fellow researchers have investigated this particular question observing keas, a New Zealand bird known f...
(Latest Thinking, 2017), 11 mins
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Do Land Management Changes Have Effects on Climate as Large as Land Cover Changes?
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(Latest Thinking, 2017), 10 mins
The study presented in this video evaluates data from observational towers, satellite pictures and other published data to compare the impact of land-cover change and land management change on climate. The results show that land management change within the same vegetation (e.g., harvesting a formerly untouched fo...
(Latest Thinking, 2017), 10 mins
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Do Moral Capacities Change With Improving Living Conditions?
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(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2017), 14 mins
We can see progress all over the world, such as technological transformations, or rising life expectancies and literacy rates. Are these improvements in material conditions accompanied by a change in moral standards? So far, such questions have mainly been discussed in the area of philosophy. CHRISTIAN WELZEL is i...
(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2017), 14 mins
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Do New Genes Stem from the Non-Coding Part of the Genome During Fast Adaptation Processes?
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presented by Diethard Tautz, 1957- (Germany: Latest Thinking, 2017), 11 mins
It is often thought that evolution is a slow process. During ecological changes in the environment, however, evolution can happen very fast. One of the reasons for this could be the role of new genes that are recruited during that adaptation. DIETHARD TAUTZ pursues the theory that these new genes come out of the s...
presented by Diethard Tautz, 1957- (Germany: Latest Thinking, 2017), 11 mins
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Do People Choose Optimal Health Insurance Plans?
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(Hamburg, Hamburg State: Latest Thinking, 2017), 14 mins
The health insurance market is driven by the individual choices consumers make on their insurance plans. The research presented in this video explores the questions of how consumers choose these plans, whether they are able to pick the plan most suited to their situation and whether they switch to another and bett...
(Hamburg, Hamburg State: Latest Thinking, 2017), 14 mins
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Do People Tend to Behave Dishonestly in Groups?
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(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2017), 12 mins
In recent years, immoral behavior in firms as well as scandals in the banking sector and non-profit organizations have been widely discussed. Often it is groups rather than individuals who are responsible for these immoral acts. This video presents an economic experiment that investigates whether groups are more l...
(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2017), 12 mins
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Do Plants Emit Volatile Compounds When Defending Themselves Against Herbivores?
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(Latest Thinking, 2017), 11 mins
Plants have at least two ways of defending themselves against herbivores. They can do so directly by producing toxins or compounds that are anti-digestive, or they can indirectly defend themselves by emitting volatile compounds that attract predators and parasitoids of the herbivores. MEREDITH SCHUMANN investigate...
(Latest Thinking, 2017), 11 mins
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Do Weak Topological Insulators Exist Outside Theoretical Mathematical Concepts?
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presented by Markus Morgenstern, fl. 1994 (Latest Thinking), 10 mins
Recent research has shown that solid materials can be classified based on their electronic band structure using the abstract mathematical concept of topology. In this video MARKUS MORGENSTERN explains how interdisciplinary research found the first material of a topological type called “weak topological insulator...
presented by Markus Morgenstern, fl. 1994 (Latest Thinking), 10 mins
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Do Wild Chimpanzee Populations Develop Diverse Cultures?
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presented by Christophe Boesch, 1951- (Latest Thinking, 2017), 15 mins
Humans pride themselves on having extensive and diverse cultures. However, cultures can also be observed in animals. The research presented in this video aims at understanding the cultures of wild chimpanzee populations in several African countries and how they differ from each other. As chimpanzees avoid human co...
presented by Christophe Boesch, 1951- (Latest Thinking, 2017), 15 mins
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