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The 成人论坛 World Service is joining forces with Wellcome Collection to explore some of the biggest challenges facing our world today in a new programme of events and radio broadcasts. In this programme, presenters Claudia Hammond and Tim Cockerill join scientists, other experts and a live audience to find out if we are more like animals than we know.

Claudia discusses how clever animals are with Professor Laurie Santos, who studies dogs and apes to understand the origin of the human mind, and Professor Anil Seth who thinks the consciousness of octopuses can be revealing. Research has shown Capuchin monkeys to be spiteful and we tend to think dogs can feel guilt but what is really going on in an animal鈥檚 mind and are their emotions real.

Speakers include:
Laurie Santos professor of psychology and animal cognition at Yale University
Professor Anil Seth from the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, Sussex

Produced in association with Wellcome Collection.

(Photo: Nile crocodile Credit: Getty Images)