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Aug 25, 2026
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Sapolsky — “You don’t have to choose between being scientific…”
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Sapolsky — “The brain is heavily influenced by genes. But…”
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Sapolsky — “Why should people in one part of the…”
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Sapolsky — “Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards…”
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Sapolsky — “In other words, the default state is to…”
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Sapolsky — “Ultimately, forgiveness is usually about one thing—“This is…”
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Sapolsky — “If we accept that there will always be…”
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Sapolsky — “Second, nothing about adolescence can be understood outside…”
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Sapolsky — “If you’re stressed like a normal mammal in…”
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Sapolsky — “Pain makes aggressive people more aggressive, while doing…”
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Sapolsky — “Testosterone makes people cocky, egocentric, and narcissistic…”
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Sapolsky — “Why is it that our automatic, intuitive moral…”
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Sapolsky — “A remarkably consistent finding, starting with elementary school…”
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Sapolsky — “Remarkably, studies have examined brains of transgender individuals…”
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Sapolsky — “Things that seem morally obvious and intuitive now…”
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Sapolsky — “We love stress that is mild and transient…”
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Sapolsky — “When it comes to empathy and compassion, rich…”
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Sapolsky — “How’s this for fascinating: Heritability of various aspects…”
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Sapolsky — “Testosterone has far less to do with aggression…”
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Sapolsky — “This leads to a thoroughly fascinating finding—social conservatives…”
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Sapolsky — “Sociality, social interactions, organisms being social with each…”
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Sapolsky — “You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in…”
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Sapolsky — “We are nothing more or less than the…”
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Sapolsky — “Sam Harris argues convincingly that it’s impossible to…”
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Sapolsky — “If that’s the case for some baboon, just…”
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Sapolsky — “Another literature compares cultures of rain forest versus…”
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Sapolsky — “There’s our nation with its cult of meritocracy…”
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Sapolsky — “In order to prove there’s free will, you…”
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Sapolsky — “In 1911, the poet Morris Rosenfeld wrote the…”
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Sapolsky — “Depression is often framed as a sufferer having…”
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Sapolsky — “There is no justifiable “deserve.” The only possible…”
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Sapolsky — “Frontal competence even declines if it’s keeping you…”
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Sapolsky — “I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of…”
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Sapolsky — “As one finding that is beyond cool, Chinese…”
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Sapolsky — “Take an average heterosexual male and expose him…”
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Sapolsky — “Thus, essentially every aspect of your childhood—good, bad…”
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Sapolsky — “Let me state this most broadly, probably at…”
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Sapolsky — “What the science in this book ultimately teaches…”
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Sapolsky — “It’s impossible to successfully will yourself to have…”
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Sapolsky — “One would think that the adverse effects of…”
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Sapolsky — “Note: I won’t be considering any theologically based…”
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