Robert Sapolsky | Father-Offspring Interviews

Episode 72 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include whether the mother or father is more evolutionarily dominant, why bottom-up emergence matters, and how other primates respond to offspring bullying.

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00:00 Intro

00:23 Question 1 (Im...

Episode 71 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses how our IQ’s are increasing, why that one song is stuck in your head, and whether we think or feel our way to decisions.

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00:00 Intro

00:15 Question 1 (IQ’s)

00:09:39 Question 2 (Earworms)

00:16:30 Questi...

Episode 70 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include placebos, updates on Sapolsky’s lectures, and whether Israel is simply doing tit-for-tat.

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Episode 69 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode focuses on questions about sex, such as penis sizes, clothing as sexual modesty, BDSM and the relationship between arousal and fear, and why humans have face-to-face sex.

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Episode 66 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the optimal living environment for humans, how we forgive, and whether suicide attempts can really be predicted and prevented.

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00:00: Intro

00:43: Question 1 (Optimal living environment)

17:13: Question 2 (The science of forgiveness)

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Episode 65 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the 1% difference between human and chimp genomes, how stress hormones can be addictive, and if one can lose weight with a metaphorical diet.

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00:00: Intro

00:43: Question 1 (Genome differences)

00:17:13: Question 2 (Stress hormon...

Episode 64 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the brain fog experienced during chemotherapy, the effects of Botox on emotion, and how many calories chess players burn.

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00:00: Intro

00:15: Question 1 (Chemo brain fog)

13:53: Question 2 (Botox and emotions)

24:55: Question 3 (C...

Episode 62 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the function of language brain regions in other apes and monkeys, the “developmental origin of health and disease” and the Dutch Hunger Winter, and how this applies to Palestine.

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00:15: Question 1 (Monkey and ape la...

Episode 61 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses de-extinction, parasocial relationships and Jennifer Aniston Neurons, and whether autism is genetically or environmentally caused (by vaccines).

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00:00: Intro

00:15: Question 1 (De-extinction)

09:06: Question 2 (Parasocial Relationships)

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Episode 60 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include Tourette Syndrome, whether free will and God are mutually exclusive, and the timeline of human sexual maturation.

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00:00: Intro

00:23: Question 1 (Tourette Syndrome)

21:07: Question 2 (Free Will vs God)

25:44: Question 3 (Human Sex...

Episode 59 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses wiring of different languages, whether the Professor and Offspring pass the Marshmallow Test, and addictive qualities of non-suicidal self-injury.

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00:00: Intro

00:20: Question 1 (First and second language wiring)

13:40: Question 2 (The M...

Episode 57 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include dopamine’s role in introversion/extroversion, drugs that create real-life zombies, and the religiosity of Alcoholics Anonymous.

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00:00: Intro

00:33: Question 1 (Introversion/Extroversion and dopamine)

11:07: Question 2 (Real-life ...

Episode 56 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses Ozempic and the potential for addiction treatment, and the historical and evolutionary presence of inbreeding.

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00:00: Intro

00:26: Question 1 (Ozempic and addiction treatment)

19:11: Question 2 (Inbreed...

Episode 55 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include brain changes during pregnancy, Zimbardo and the Stanford Prison Experiment, and the roots of circumcision.

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0:00: Intro

0:18: Question 1 (Pregnancy Brain changes)

12:40: Question 2 (Stanford Prison Experiment)

26:30: Question 3 (C...