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Thursday, October 30, 2014

Lecture Collection | Human Behavioral Biology

"(March 29, 2010) Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky gave the opening lecture of the course entitled Human Behavioral Biology and explains the basic premise of the course and how he aims to avoid categorical thinking.....
[also focuses on] lectures on the biology of behavioral evolution and thoroughly discusses examples such as The Prisoner's Dilemma....
[and]  behavioral patterns of human reproduction. He focuses on proximal and distal motivations, orgasm and fertility facilitation, non-reproductive sex, hormonal and cerebral sexual functions, and the differences and similarities between humans and animals in various physiological realms....
[he then] completes his talk on sexual behavior in humans as well as other species, focusing on characteristics that create attractiveness. He then switches subject and talks about human aggression and how this has evolved and developed in different cultures."

See playlist of Robert Sapolsky's human behavior lectures