Alien Biospheres: Part 15 - Sapience

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MUSIC:
River Flute – Kevin Macleod
Ethereal Relaxation – Kevin Macleod
Ambiment – Kevin Macleod
Almost in F – Kevin Macleod

SOURCES AND FURTHER READING: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

IMAGES:
Hyena greeting ceremony – David W. Siu
Toilet-claw on a Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur – Maky
Grooming monkeys – Muhammad Mahdi Karim
Brain-to-body-mass ratio for some animals – User:Benevolent
Hyoid bone – OpenStax College
Jellyfish – Dan90266
Neuron – SanuN
Çatalhöyük – Dan Lewandowski
Human brain on white background – DJ
African elephant feeding – Getty Images
Diagram of the visual fields of a jumping spider as viewed from above – David Edwin Hill
Sea otter using rock anvil – Smithsonian national zoo
Termite mound in Australia – W. Bulach
Meerkats fighting – sorefo
Cute kitten – Saving Public Ryan
Beaver building dam – Ronnie Howard
Egyptian vulture with stick – Vaibhavcho
Chimps socializing – Ikiwaner
Menstrual cycle – isometric
Geologic timeline – Jarred C. Lloyd
Obstetrical dilemma – Archaeomouse
South Georgia Orca – Christopher Michel
Portrait of Mother and Child – Curt Carnemark / World Bank Photo Collection
Chimpanzee throwing rock – Anup Shah/Nature Picture Library/Corbis
Sweat gland anatomy – Glafoululle des Alpes
Anatomy of the shoulder joint, front view – Jmarchn
Maasai throwing spears – Danijel Mihajlovic
Chronological dispersal of Austronesian people across the Pacific – Pavljenko
Ants and Aphids – Roy Eggloff
Scala Naturae – Pablo Carlos Budassi
Chimpanzee tool usage – Ucumari photography
Squirrel monkey eating a red fruit – Tambako the jaguar
Filling in a crossword puzzle – Philippa Willitts
Dopamine pathway –
Cloudy desert – Mathhew Eshak
Japanese macaques – Akiko Takahashi
African grey parrot hatching – Geek2Nurse
Expensive tissue hypothesis – Smithsonian Human Origins Program
Human running adaptations – Chakazul
Cognitive bias codex – John Manoogian III

0:00 Campfire
1:08 Intro
4:18 What is sapience?
8:17 Instinctive vs. learned behaviors
14:21 Humanoids are teleological
16:03 Prerequisites for sapience
21:40 Sociality
24:12 Astrolophids
31:23 Diet
33:30 Manipulation
38:37 Habitat instability
42:04 Paleotecton
52:00 Neurological evolution
56:00 Pattern recognition
57:42 Symbolism
1:01:36 Language
1:04:40 Tool use
1:10:01 Migration and speciation
1:14:44 Instinctual lag
1:17:20 Senses
1:21:17 Reproduction
1:28:03 Morality
1:29:56 In-group vs. Out-group
1:35:12 The Uncertain Future