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Robert Sapolsky about the humans, gibbons and other animals

An intro:
Gregory C. Farrington (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_C._Farrington): Good evening and welcome to this month's Pritzker lecture! I'm Greg Farrington executive director of the Academy; 'chief penguin' as they say... or as I say. I think that's a; it's as good an identity as any. Tonight it's my pleasure to introduce Robert Sapolsky from Stanford. You've heard of Stanford, I presume. he's the  John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn professor. And he holds joint appointments in biology and neurology and neurological sciences. He's also research associate at the Institute of primate research operated by the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi and the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship. Most significantly he's an Academy fellow; he's one of us. Dr. Sapolsky received his BA in biological anthropology from Harvard and his PhD from Rockefeller University in neuroendocrinology. He's the author of several books including (and I love this title) "Stress, the Aging Brain, and the Mechanisms of Neuron Death" a guide to stress-related diseases in coping. I can't quite decide whether to read it or not. He also regularly contributes a journals such as "Discover", "Science", "Scientific American", "Harper's" and "The New Yorker". I hope you read them all!
Now I, before the final step of the introduction I will say I'm about to walk out. The reason is simple: my wife and I married our son off on the East Coast, we just got back and we're zoned. So we are going or these bundles of neurons are about to collapse and so we are trying to watch this on the Fora TV version later on, even though we regret missing tonight. His topic this evening is "Humans are we just another primate? Are we just a bunch of neurons?" Please join me in welcoming Robert Sapolsky.

Watch it:

More (about R. Sapolsky): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sapolsky

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 You may learn a lot about the ethology from this video as well. Many of the problems are ethological. More about the ethology in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethology. This video is useful for the anthropological philosophy (or philosophical anthropology) as well.