{"id":8763,"date":"2019-07-09T09:57:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T16:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=8763"},"modified":"2019-07-09T09:57:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T16:57:25","slug":"neanderthal-among-us-science-meets-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/science\/neanderthal-among-us-science-meets-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Neanderthal Among Us? Science Meets Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/34803\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/images\/rokupicts\/34803.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>What makes us human is a question that not only science asks, but all disciplines of mind from philosophy to religion to sociology and ethics, and even to storytelling and the arts. <\/p>\n<p>Tim Disney&#8217;s new movie &#8220;William&rdquo; is about a Neanderthal living in the modern world and forces us to ask about humanness and many other questions. <\/p>\n<p>Disney&rsquo;s movie provides a foil to explore many facets of human nature and sociology, and raises questions about technology and its present and future effects on the human phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>With research interests and experience exploring the distinctions in the Neanderthal and Human genomes, Alysson Muotri, Director of the UC San Diego Stem Cell Program, brought together a panel of experts from across a spectrum of disciplines to explore these issues in a lively and engaging forum with the movie&#8217;s creator.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/34803\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch \u2014 Neanderthal Among Us? Science Meets Fiction &#8211; A Discussion of Tim Disney&#8217;s Motion Picture &#8220;William&#8221; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes us human is a question that not only science asks, but all disciplines of mind from philosophy to religion to sociology and ethics, and even to storytelling and the arts. Tim Disney&#8217;s new movie &#8220;William&rdquo; is about a Neanderthal living in the modern world and forces us to ask about humanness and many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[871,30,28,828,1020,312],"tags":[332,859,1252,1253],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}