Science
What Drives Our Behaviours
It’s like having the *software* for Mother Teresa and a tyrant installed in the same brain. Robert Sapolsky helps us decode what drives human behaviour.
Humans are unique in having this combination of higher cognition and the emotional potential to override it. We are capable of behaviors that are utterly magnificent and ones that are utterly appalling.— Robert Sapolsky
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The thinker
Neurobiologist and Behavioral Expert
Robert Sapolsky is a Stanford University neurobiologist and primatologist, renowned for his research on stress, behavior, and the biological underpinnings of human nature.
Based on Robert Sapolsky: Human Behaviour and Free Will, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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