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Dec 4, 2015 1 hr 7 min

113 Robert Sapolsky - Being Human

from Inquiring Minds Hosted by Indre Viskontas

Robert Sapolsky is a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University, and a research associate with the Institute of Primate Research at the National Museum of Kenya. We talked to Sapolsky about what it means to be human, what we humans can learn from other species, and why he—despite being a self-described pessimist—feels optimistic about our prospects as a species. This week’s episode was recorded live in San Francisco for the 2015 Bay Area Science Festival and was produced in collaboration with The Leakey Foundation and their podcast Origin Stories. http://leakeyfoundation.org/ http://leakeyfoundation.org/originstories http://patreon.com/inquiringminds Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

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