Robert Sapolsky | Father-Offspring Interviews

Episode 136 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include a recent report that the brain has two lineages of cells and the implications, as well as why some species reproduce and then promptly die.

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00:00 Intro
00:00:14 Question 1 (Dual lineages of brain cells)
00:11:51 Question 2 (Post-mating deaths)

Episode 135 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses why men seem to fall asleep after sex so much faster than women, and how the autonomic nervous system differs between men and women when it comes to arousal.

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00:00 Intro
00:00:14 Question 1 (Why men fall asleep and the autonomic nervous system)

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)