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Video: Laurie Santos – The Evolution of Irrationality

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If you missed Laurie Santos’ SciCafe presentation at the American Museum of Natural History, we have a video of her presentation.

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The ancestral history of humans and primates is extensive, but can it explain even our financial choices? New experiments in “monkeynomics” demonstrate that monkeys make some of the same silly financial choices we do — but sometimes they make smarter choices.

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