We humans think we're so special. To determine what sets us apart from the rest of the animal world, scientists investigate features that might be uniquely human, such as self-awareness or language. But every now and then, a new finding throws the narrative, leaving us to wonder what those truly unique human traits really are. In a new study, neuroscientists have knocked down another assumption by discovering a network in the monkey brain that's exclusively devoted to analysing social interactions. Most primates, including humans, are highly social animals, and are able to effortlessly analyse social interactions. But we don't know much about the neural networks that allow monkeys to do this kind of sophisticated processing. Scientists from the Rockefeller University in New York used an fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) scanner to look at four rhesus macaque brains while they were watching different videos. The viewing material included scenes of monkeys engaging in social