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Robert Sapolsky: The uniqueness of humans

Stanford University, Filmed Sep 2009; Posted Jan 2010

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At Stanford University, primatologist Robert Sapolsky offers a fascinating and funny look at human behaviors which the rest of the animal kingdom would consider bizarre.

Robert Sapolsky studies the universal human ailment of stress, but his main research subjects are the wild baboons of Kenya. Full bio »

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