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Brenna Hassett: Why We Are Weird

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The Unappreciated Traits That Make Us Human

Brenna Hasett is a researcher at University College, London's Institute of Archaeology. Her book Growing Up Human offers an insight into our extraordinarily long childhoods. We're weird compared to other animals because we do this thing called pair bonding and the rest of the animal kingdom has decided that that's just a waste of resources.

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