human behavioral biology

We All Need To Be Behavioral Biologists

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Understanding human behavior is valuable. Robert Sapolsky strongly expresses this sentiment in the first class of his Human Behavioral Biology course, taught at Stanford University in 2010 (it is available for free online and I have begun to summarize it). It is a sentiment I share. In the very first class, Sapolsky takes the time to emphasize to […]

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Human Behavioral Biology – 03 – Behavioral Evolution II

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Behavioral Evolution II – Discuss additional evolved animal behaviors, introduce a controversial fourth building block called Group Selection, and introduce various criticisms of behavioral evolution.

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Human Behavioral Biology – 02 – Behavioral Evolution I

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Behavioral Evolution I – Introduction to behavioral evolution, the requirements for the evolution of populations, and the three building blocks of evolutionary behavior.

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Human Behavioral Biology – 01 – Introduction

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Introduction to human behavioral biology, thinking in buckets, some additional cautions before getting started, and relevant course information.

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