An experimental study of modern chimpanzees has documented patterns of behavior that seemingly mirror those of our ... published in the Journal of Human Evolution, demonstrates that the process ...

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One stop on Alan Alda’s Human Spark journey was a visit with Marco Iacoboni at UCLA. Marco’s area of interest is mirror neurons. These cells in our brains are each active when we perform very ...