![]() ![]() Sapolsky has two mantras running through his 700 pages-“context, context, context” and “it’s complicated.” From whatever starting point, he then peels outwards and backwards. Touching can lead down a dark road and pulling the trigger may be in defence of the helpless. Make no assumptions about which is the good deed. It starts with any human moment, good or bad-touching another’s arm or pulling a trigger. ![]() His latest book is Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, a masterful synthesis of current scientific thinking on the biological roots of our behaviour. Along the way, he picked up a MacArthur genius award. ![]() Now 60, Sapolsky is a cross-appointed professor at Stanford University (biology and neuroscience), and a research associate at the National Museums of Kenya. He’s just one of those people-when he was a kid fascinated with primates he started, at age 13, teaching himself Swahili so he could go to Africa to study them. Robert Sapolsky, who looks like Jerry Garcia would if Jerry Garcia were still alive, is a rock star of neuroscience. ![]()
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