Human Behavior, Evolution, Morality, and Free Will w/ Robert Sapolsky

Hello, everybody! Today, I have another big name for you. Dr. Robert Sapolsky is the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Biology and Professor of Neurology and of Neurosurgery at Stanford University. Dr. Sapolsky is the author of several informative and comical books that present cutting edge psychoneurobiological knowledge in an enjoyable, easy to read format. He's also a renowned researcher and award-winning professor at Stanford University. He’s the author of books like Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, The Trouble with Testosterone: And Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament, A Primate's Memoir, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst.

In this episode, we cover some broad topics on human behavior. We talk about group selection and the extended evolutionary synthesis, our morality, free will, and behavioral flexibility.

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