I was hoping you would redo this submission, since I was in the middle of watching it and writing my comment when you deleted the old one. ;) Robert Sapolsky is a great speaker, and his old TED...
I was hoping you would redo this submission, since I was in the middle of watching it and writing my comment when you deleted the old one. ;)
Robert Sapolsky is a great speaker, and his old TED talk on a similar subject is fantastic (and rather funny): The uniqueness of humans
There is actually a bunch of his other lectures available on various Stanford channels as well. Definitely recommend checking them out if you like his stuff. p.s. I dunno if you saw it the other...
There is actually a bunch of his other lectures available on various Stanford channels as well. Definitely recommend checking them out if you like his stuff.
p.s. I dunno if you saw it the other day when it was submitted to ~humanities but if you like Robert Sapolsky, another gloriously bearded lecturer that is worth checking out is Irving Finkel. He is an Assyriologist and Cuneiform expert, not a biologist but they have a remarkably similar sense of humour, so you might get a kick out of him.
p.p.s. This lecture was great (and also really funny), thanks for sharing it. :)
I was hoping you would redo this submission, since I was in the middle of watching it and writing my comment when you deleted the old one. ;)
Robert Sapolsky is a great speaker, and his old TED talk on a similar subject is fantastic (and rather funny):
The uniqueness of humans
There is actually a bunch of his other lectures available on various Stanford channels as well. Definitely recommend checking them out if you like his stuff.
p.s. I dunno if you saw it the other day when it was submitted to ~humanities but if you like Robert Sapolsky, another gloriously bearded lecturer that is worth checking out is Irving Finkel. He is an Assyriologist and Cuneiform expert, not a biologist but they have a remarkably similar sense of humour, so you might get a kick out of him.
p.p.s. This lecture was great (and also really funny), thanks for sharing it. :)