Five talents working in the Netherlands, each from a different field, answer five questions that will feature during Leiden European City of Science 2022. These questions are important not only for science, but for all curious people. And they help us think about a better world. These talents want to contribute to this themselves. One of those talents is Meike Kombrink, PhD candidate at the Netherlands Forensic Institute. She answers the question 'what makes us human?'.

Kombrink: "We humans don’t need that much space for our brains, yet we are very good at reasoning".

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