Nina Jablonski Encourages Us to Stop Twittering, Start Touching

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A decade of e-mailing, IM'ing and social networking is beginning to undo 40 million years of touching as a primary human modality. Nina Jablonski - acclaimed primatologist, evolutionary biologist and Penn State anthropology department head - explores this change,our role as the only "self-decorating ape," and how our underappreciated skin holds the key to our humanity.