The essential Robert Sapolsky

[Diane]

Lecture 14: What do genes do? The macroevolution of genes

[Diane]

Lecture 15: Behaviour genetics

[Diane]

Lecture 16: Behaviour genetics and prenatal environment

[Diane]

Lecture 17: An introduction to ethology

[Diane]

Lecture 18: Neuroethology

[byronselorme]

From lecture 17.

ethology is the process of interviewing the animal in its own language

I don't think that could be any more of an interactive statement. Are these Teaching Company lectures? Great find.

[Diane]

From lecture 17.

ethology is the process of interviewing the animal in its own language

I don't think that could be any more of an interactive statement. Are these Teaching Company lectures? Great find.

Those are my sentiments, exactly. Which is why I think this analytic approach could work for people too, well, the sensory-motor part at least. The critter brain. Maybe the ideomotor part too, but the design for handling the "ideo" part of "motor" would have to be handled carefully and without confound, I think.

[Simon Thakur]

Thanks for these, the first five have been on youtube for ages but it's great to see the series keeps going (into some really interesting territory!). Sapolsky is my hero.

[ste5e]

And for some reason they play on the PC at work! Normally we are blocked to youtube so its great to be able to do some learning at work. When the work DNAs:angry: its nice to do some learning:angel:
Kind thoughts,
Steve
PS Happy New Year! Many thanks for finding so many wonderful, mind expanding, perspective shifting, patient helping links this year Diane and all you others.:clap2:.

[Diane]

It's a pleasure! I'll load up the last ones later. I watched the last one yesterday.

I'd say, it's a great class to take. Or at least watch. More than once. He's a critical thinker, so it's great to watch him leap nimbly between (as he calls them) categorical "buckets", choosing what makes sense from them and pointing out the foibles contained in sticking with only one bucket because of conflicting information that arises from a different bucket.

It's the best overview of human biology I've ever ever seen. Ever.

[Electerik]

I just made it through all.

Lecture 24. A summary. Is it just me? Because it just floored me. Brilliant.

Sapolsky's has a deep knowledge of so many different fields.

He has an amazing ability to explain it all, then just take a cognitive step back, all the while staying critical and then coherently smashing it all back together into something digestible.

It's nourishing.

[caro]

I never got past 8. They were yanked. Did you save them?

[Diane]

Unfortunately no. So sorry.

[Electerik]

Caro,

I have a hard copy.

[Diane]

Good for you!! :angel: