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sellers. This is Scientific American Science

Talk posted on May 29th, 2020. I'm Steve Murski. On this episode, 500 years ago, the wisest medical

people on earth had an explanation for the cause of your epilepsy, which is you've been sleeping with

Satan and you're demonically possessed, and the medical cure was absolutely clear, which is

burn you at the stake.

That's Robert Sapolsky.

He's a professor of biology, neurology, and neurosurgery at Stanford University.

He's also a research associate at the National Museums of Kenya. In the lab, he's

a neurobiologist who studies the effects of stress. In the field, he's a primatologist who

looks at individual differences in stress, behavior, and health among wild baboons living in a

national park. He's the author of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers and of a Primates Memoir.

And his most recent book is Behave, the biology of humans at our best and worst.

I had seen him give talks in person and read his work, so I jumped at the chance to be in his

company on a Scientific American lecture cruise last summer.

We spoke aboard ship somewhere in the English Channel.

Midway through our chat, we'll take a six-minute break sponsored by the Cavley Prize

about the most recent winners announced May 27th.

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