#309 Robert Sapolsky: Human Behavior, Evolution, Morality, and Free Will
RECORDED ON March 12th, 2020.
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.
Time Links:
Human behavior and the different levels of analysis
Group selection, multilevel selection, and the extended evolutionary synthesis
Our complicated morality
On free will
The evolution of behavioral flexibility
Follow Dr. Sapolsky’s work!
Follow Dr. Sapolsky’s work:
Faculty page: https://stanford.io/2t1M8xQ
ResearchGate profile: http://bit.ly/2tG25tw
Books on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2FvO9Ff
Human Behavioral Biology (YouTube): http://bit.ly/38LBf1Y