The Neuromantics
Season 2
Episode 4
The grooming episode.
Neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott and writer Will Eaves talk social bonds, hierarchies and connectedness. Focusing on a paper about baboon groups in Africa, they untangle the reasons why primates thrive as social animals and come a cropper when left alone. (That's where the grooming comes in.) What can these tight baboon hierarchies usefully tell us about our own social structures and interactions? Can group activities really bring people with opposing views together? Join the Neuromantics to discuss alpha males, rogue males, child escapees (courtesy of the writer M. John Harrison) and nail bars.
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