by
Robert Winston
(2002)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/tv/humaninstinct/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330419/
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/human-instinct/
EXCERPTS
Part.1 - BORN TO SURVIVE
Tags: Food/Appetite, Tongue, Threat to Life by Eating Wrong Food;
Physical Threat and Body Reactions,
"So for a babies big head to pass through a small birth canal
the baby has to be born well before the brain is fully developed.
That evolutionary trade off meant this,
a highly vulnerable baby born before its time.
Fully reliant on its parents."
"1000 billion eggs are produced worldwide every year,
600,000 tons of sugar are consumed each week,
800 tons of French Fries are eaten every hour,"
"Human tongue has number of uses; but its basic function is to tell us
what's good for us and what could harm us.
5000 taste buds lets us know what to swallow and what to spit out.
And to stay in perfect working order
taste buds only last 10 days before new ones develop.
Our tongues are the gate keeper to our stomachs."
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Part.2 - DEEPEST DESIRES
Tags: Sex, Partners, Next Generation, Body, Attractiveness, Body Smell, Jealousy.
"Why are 13,000 miles of lipstick sold each year?
Why are 4,000 gallons of after-shave used everyday?
What burns a quarter of a million calories in our lifetime?
And What will 240 million people be doing tonight?
It all boils down to one thing.
What is it?
... HAVING SEX!"
"In the time it takes for a mother to produce one child,
a man can father hundreds of them.
The world record by a Moroccan emperor is 888 children."
"the sperm is the smallest cell and in a typical ejaculation a man can release 300 million."
"beauty may not be so much in the eye of the beholder,
but in the nose!."
"All of us have had our blood tested, for 6 genes that reveal what type of immune system we have.
If all 6 of my genes match all 6 of a woman's, that's bad,
I should find her smell unappealing, because our children are likely to be less healthy.
But if only one or two genes match, that's good. I should find the smell attractive. because it would mean our children would be naturally more healthy."
"In fact a British survey suggests that women who cheat are most likely to do so during the four days surrounding their ovulation."
"that on average, as many as one in ten children are being raised by men who are unaware that they are not the child's biological father."
"One European study of homicide reported that sexual jealousy (غیرت) was the motive in nearly a third of all the murders they assessed."
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Part.3 - WILL TO WIN
Tags: Win/Lose, Competition, Opponent, Facial Dominance, Body Language, First Child and Second Child, Getting Noticed, Embarrassment,
"Why does coming out on top feel so great?
And why does losing feel so bad?"
"Almost from birth piglets lay claim to the best teat,
and once they've claimed their teat there's no moving them."
"Martin Luther King, Mahatama Gandhi, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Jefferson, ... What did all these people have in common?
... Not one waws a fisrt born. Each had at least one elder brother or sister.
A study of a 120,000 people came up with a dramatic conclusion, that the instinctive behaviour adopted by younger children to get noticed can stay with them for life.
They are much more likely to be radical thinkers and challenge convention."
"Feel good chemicals like dopamine and endorphins."
And why does losing feel so bad?"
"Almost from birth piglets lay claim to the best teat,
and once they've claimed their teat there's no moving them."
"Martin Luther King, Mahatama Gandhi, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Jefferson, ... What did all these people have in common?
... Not one waws a fisrt born. Each had at least one elder brother or sister.
A study of a 120,000 people came up with a dramatic conclusion, that the instinctive behaviour adopted by younger children to get noticed can stay with them for life.
They are much more likely to be radical thinkers and challenge convention."
"Feel good chemicals like dopamine and endorphins."
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Part.4 - NATURAL BORN HEROES
Tags: Sacrifice, Intimacy, Relatives, Genes, Friends, Taking Care, Punishing, Cheat, Generosity
Mimic Neurons:
"Recently they've discovered a special set of brain cells,
They're called mirror neurons,
and what they do is remarkable.
The theory is that when i see someone performing an action
my mirror neurons should try to copy the action too.
But normally this effect is so subtle I'm not even aware of it.
This pioneering work leads some scientists to believe that our mirror neurons
don't just imitate what other people do, but perhaps even how they feel."
________________________"Recently they've discovered a special set of brain cells,
They're called mirror neurons,
and what they do is remarkable.
The theory is that when i see someone performing an action
my mirror neurons should try to copy the action too.
But normally this effect is so subtle I'm not even aware of it.
This pioneering work leads some scientists to believe that our mirror neurons
don't just imitate what other people do, but perhaps even how they feel."
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