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Robert M Sapolsky
Author ‘Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst’
Robert M. Sapolsky holds degrees from Harvard and Rockefeller Universities and is currently a Professor of Biology and Neurology at Stanford University and a Research Associate with the Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya. His books include New York Times bestseller, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst and Determined.
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8 min
You’ve heard about your "lizard brain." But what about the other two?
John Templeton Foundation
6 min
Neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky on the science of temptation, and the limitations of your brain’s frontal cortex.
7 min
Don't let your reptile brain tell you what to do.
4 min
Neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky explains how your first 25 years will shape the next 50.
4 min
We've all heard the line "free will is an illusion". But it may be much more an allusion—to society and culture and our surroundings—than we've ever given it credit for.
8 min
You have three types of brain inside your brain. And they're all fighting for dominance.
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It's all in your mind. Really. Everything bad in the world might be coming from one particular part of the human brain.