Secrets of the Brain

BBC Two HD

9:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Monday 6 October

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Part two of two. Jim Al-Khalili watches primates in action to see how they tackle survival challenges, revealing the clever tricks that shaped human thinking. The real breakthrough came, however, when brains learned to be social, and Jim teams up with his wife to investigate how relationships and friendships made people more intelligent. With AI getting smarter by the day, Jim wants to know what makes biological brains so special and uses scans, fossil discoveries and cutting-edge research to uncover what makes the brain so hard to emulate