Robert Sapolsky
This week, we are presenting an encore of a 2017 conversation with Dr. Robert Sapolsky. Sapolsky is a primatologist and neurologist with a unique gift for storytelling.\xa0 Oliver Sacks called him \u201cone of the best scientist-writers of our time\u201d.\xa0 Sapolsky has spent decades studying primate behavior.\xa0 One of his most consuming fascinations is how humans are both the most violent species on earth \u2013 as well as the most altruistic, cooperative, and empathetic. That paradox, and the factors behind it, are the subject of his most recent book \u201cBehave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst\u201d.\xa0 On May 22, 2017, Robert Sapolsky talked with psychology professor Dacher Keltner at the Nourse Theater in San Francisco.\xa0