Robert Sapolsky | Father-Offspring Interviews

Episode 134 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode focuses on the online trend of “looksmaxxing,” with the influencer Clavicular as the face of the movement, as well as discussing some of human cultures’ most interesting male mating rituals.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:17 Question 1 (Looksmaxxing)

00:07:47 Question 2 (The Wodaabe and Male Mating Rituals)

Episode 133 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the work of Stanford’s Karl Deisseroth that earned him his recent Nobel Prize, as well as a deep dive into the research on whether wealthier people really are more selfish.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Deisseroth’s Nobel Prize winning work)

00:22:57 Question 2 (Wealth and empathy/selfishness)

Episode 132 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include what hemispherectomies teach us about neuroplasticity, and the strange new “sport” that is sperm racing.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Hemispherectomies and neuroplasticity)

00:18:22 Question 2 (Sperm racing)

Episode 131 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode includes discussion of laughing diseases and similar “epidemics,” and the role that hookworms play in our immune systems, as well as touching on the case at Cornell that is dominating headlines.

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00:00 Intro/A Comment on Cornell

00:00:48 Question 1 (Laughing diseases)

00:26:09 Question 2 (Hookworms and our immune systems)

Episode 130 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the worldwide falling fertility rates, and whether this is a concern for humankind, as well as the theories as to why we have this mysterious thing called a bladder.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Dropping fertility rates)

00:20:17 Question 2 (Why we have bladders)

Episode 129 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include how birth order actually influences personality, sexual orientation, and IQ (among other traits), and the leading theories on why we and other species yawn, along with how yawns just might be extremely sexy.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (The effect of birth order)

00:20:17 Question 2 (Yawning)

Episode 128 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include how our brains measure time, and when they fail to, and the Shakespearean opera all about baboons.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (How the brain measures time)

00:22:18 Question 2 (The Baboon Opera)

Episode 127 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode focuses on the Lindsay Clancy trial, discussing both the scientific and legal aspects of it and their interaction, and how this could be a landmark case for psychiatric diseases and the law.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:39 Part 1 (Context for the case)

00:05:58 Part 2 (The Neurobiology Perspective)

00:20:25 Part 3 (The Legal Aspect)

Episode 126 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include if the gut microbiome can affect the brain, especially when it comes to psychiatric disorders, and the difference between shame and guilt-based cultures.

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00:00 Intro and Comments Response

00:04:28 Question 1 (Gut Microbiome and the brain)

00:20:54 Question 2 (Shame vs. guilt-based cultures)

Episode 125 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode includes discussion of some of the supposed neurobiological differences between introversion and extroversion and why they may be inaccurate, and the recent demonstration of mathematical abilities by some Spanish giraffe.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:17 Question 1 (Neurobiology of introversion and extroversion)

00:20:54 Question 2 (Giraffe that do math)

Episode 124 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the world of pseudoscience and conspiracy theories and how to talk to someone who believes them, and what would happen if we got rid of mosquitos once and for all.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Pseudoscience and conspiracy theories)

00:20:56 Question 2 (Could we eradicate mosquitos?)

Episode 123 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the relationship between the immune system, stress, and glucocorticoids, and why men keep coming close to being wiped out.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Autoimmunity, stress, and glucocorticoids)

00:15:17 Question 2 (Male Eradications)

Episode 122 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the potential danger that is mirror cells, and whether other apes laugh like we do.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Mirror Cells)

00:16:58 Question 2 Part 1 (Ape Laughter)

Episode 121 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the recent craze that is peptides and whether they really help strength and muscle growth, and how one trains their brain for a Spelling Bee, along with how a trend in Bees reflects a larger pattern of demographics in the U.S.

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00:00 Intro and Corrections

00:01:20 Question 1 (Peptides and muscle growth)

00:16:02 Question 2 Part 1 (Training for Spelling Bees)

00:25:52 Question 2 Part 2 (Bees and Demographic trends)

Episode 120 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include how the amygdala processes “us” and “them” in biracial individuals, as well as in other cases of intersectional identities, and what the mysterious eye floaters we all see really are.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Biracial individuals and amygdala categorization)

00:28:32 Question 2 (Eye floaters)

Episode 119 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode includes discussion of whether humans will evolve into different subspecies, inter- versus intra- genetic similarities of species, and why so many people are so attracted to bad boys.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Will humans speciate?)

00:13:20 Question 2 (“Shared” genes)

00:20:27 Question 3 (The appeal of bad boys)

Episode 118 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include moral scrupulosity OCD and whether it may be rooted in intergenerational trauma, with the the Armenian Genocide as an example lens, and the (slightly terrifying) case of a snake and fish cooperative hunting technique.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 Part 1 (Moral scrupulosity OCD)

00:08:21 Q1 Part 2 (Armenian Genocide)

00:17:43 Q1 Part 3 (Intergenerational Trauma)

00:27:39 Question 2 (Snake and Fish Cooperative Hunting)

Episode 117 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode focuses on work around plant intelligence and the amazing – though often oversold – things plants do.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Plants Part 1

00:14:26 Part 2

00:22:48 Part 3

Episode 116 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode includes discussion of Marchetti’s constant of human commuting, as well as why we humans shake hands and how other species do the same.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Marchetti’s Constant and Commuting)

00:15:06 Question 2 (Handshakes)

Episode 115 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include why some people eat more and others eat less under stress, and groundbreaking work that has shown the complex language skills of birds.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Stress and Eating)

00:20:10 Question 2 (Birds and Language)