2. Behavioral Evolution
2011 ж. 31 Қаң.
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(March 31, 2010) Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky lectures on the biology of behavioral evolution and thoroughly discusses examples such as The Prisoner's Dilemma.
Stanford University
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Stanford Department of Biology
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Stanford University Channel on KZhead
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Sapolsky is the reason I'm a bio major. I read "Zebras" in prison and went around trying to explain everything I took from it to everyone I could haha. First month out, started college, aced bio, and already a TA. Thanks Professor.
That's awesome, good for you
@@ZaidIsm007 Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
@@williamwalker3618 thank you.
What an admirable turn of events.
WOHOOOOO Happy for you!!!
Netflix doesn't even have anything as binge-worthy as this guy's videos.
Netflix is becoming boring after short time. KZhead is much better. Also Netflix does not have search capability. Why?
true
Agreed !!!! :)
@@primamateriya well said :)
Wow
I love how he gives these mini summaries throughout the lecture and it's literally so precise and holistic, like reinforcing information into your brain, What a genius lecturer
So true Anshika
I agreed
00:00 Intro 04:00 Introduction to Evolution and Social Behavior 14:11 Wrong concepts about Behavioral Evolution 19:08 Fundamental Behavior Patterns based on Evolution 41:15 The Strategical Patterns of Behavior 1:02:13 Strategic Behavioral Patterns Examples on Animal Realms & Exceptions 1:15:56 Summary & Predicting Behavior upon Sexual Diamorphism in species 1:36:51 Ending
you're amazing
🙏❣️
You're a great guy
thank u thank u
Hero
I can’t believe that the university put one of its most popular professor’s lectures on youtube for free. How great is that? I was so excited when i saw who was teaching this.
how popular is he exactly?
kalsoom asif well he was on joe rogan, so pretty popular
@Cecil Gibson peterson and weinstein are frauds tho
Is there somewhere you can watch other lectures online and pay for it?
@@MrFlixke Why would Peterson be a fraud?
Robert Sapolsky truly lives up to the title of Professor.
+Robert Beauville i'm sorry, but isn't this whole course constantly referring to 'nature VS nurture' stuff?
Gary Doss he is awesome very engaging
@ Gary Doss Absolutely right. He stands at the markerboard and professes. And he does so regularly, and for pay. Which makes him a professional professor. He should be in geology. Because he rocks.
I am... a computer guy. I watch this for the fun of it :D ^^
// , Yes, he actually *professes* instead of just hiding his ideas from all but those who pay him.
This series is fascinating. I left school at 16, bad grades , got a job and now doing well in sales. HOWEVER , human psychology and behavior always amazed me and in another life or alternate reality or maybe if I had just made better decisions in life I would have studied this so hard. I feel very lucky to be alive in a day and age where I can watch this level of mentorship on KZhead for free. Thank you sir.
Absolutely same, love this
What's stopping you? There are obstacles bit you are equipped with the ability to remove the obstacles.
Me too!
A retiree here. Never would have guessed I would study on a phone (? a phone?!?) about a subject I know nothing about. At 73. Go figure.
Learn Neuro Linguistic Programming/NLP. Nobody is born with PTSD. Nobody. you will forget what's in the NLP nobody sandwich cause nobody wants to be a nobody. The former el presidente used it on the public during his Presidental debates in 2016. the audience was too confused throw tomatoes plus the audience was untomatoed. one doesn't be an audience at a presidental debate with a history of throwing tomatoes at bad political figures. NLP's something people in marketing & politics use, and managers use. In psychology. psychologists call it ''priming'' not Neuro Linguistic Programming. same doggy doo doo different label. catch phrases and repetition are your keys to people's mind. May the inner peace be with you. ''realize the man who says anything.'' from the Great Commandment by Camouflage. ♫♪
I hope he is still teaching, and I hope he gets paid a LOT of money. He's the best lecturer I've even able to imagine. Reminds me of Feynmann.
Daymn fr. Sapolsky, Feynman, Peterson, legends
he is still teaching :)
Is Richard Feynman a physicist or psychologist sorry for being uneducated in such maters
@@Bilistickpitbull physicist
He’s 74-ish now. I hope he’s relaxing and doing whatever he wants. He has earned a true retirement.
who else aspires to be as well spoken, intelligent and funny as this man?
Me! I just want to be as skilled as this man in choosing PRECISE words carefully, yet so fluently.
Spare no expense
Be fooled not, the 5 sensory perceptions are no match for the spiritual awareness.
Nice
Is that all what you took away from this lecture?
This is the entire purpose of the internet. Thanks so much!
You must be confused. This is not pornography unless, ahh, you're into bearded men... ;)
to me it's brain porn. I'm fond of these, but professor Sapolsky is a real pleasure to listen to.
Brain porn! Also, he looks like a hippie which I love, like an intellectual academic hippie
I think the purpose of the internet was to create a level of communication between Government and Military leaders during the first world war.
30 years ago, if you told me there would be a forum in which people freely and willingly share their talents and educate one another just for the joy of knowledge, I would have laughed. I love the internet for this (and so many other) reason(s). :)
My 14 y/o self is here during summer break watching a Stanford class and taking notes… my parents are looking at me like I’m crazy and so are a whole bunch of my friends. Thank you, this is what the internet should be used for!
You'll go far 👍🏻
They'll see you ace through life. Keep the passion alive!
go out and get some ffs!!
You are a lucky one ! Getting access to these lectures at such an early age. You will go very far. All the best 😊
These lectures make me so nostalgic of the feeling of my undergrad years. Thinking of continuing my education.
Me too! I wish I could take all of his classes! He’s totally Genius!!!♥️👍 Remember it’s never too late to learn more! I’m probably a whole lot older than you (62) but I will be learning new things until the day I leave this planet and who knows what happens after that.. Smiles! Have a Beautiful Day!!!🌺🍃
I am an exceptionally old senior citizen and did not go to college and have always wondered what it would be like to attend college. Now I can say I took a class at Stanford, I found this class extremely interesting. Like the saying goes it's never to late to learn. This is one of more valuable lessons on UTube.
My university offers seniors a free audit- you might have the opportunity to take college classes that way.
You are so cuuuute Arlene !!! I admire your dedication to knowledge, i aspire to be like you when ill be older !!! Big respect 🙌
Good for you !
Also a senior learner. I would like to recommend an amazing course on Greek History by Donald Kagan from Yale University. Available on you tube or through Yale courses. I downloaded it and listened to it many times. Just thought I’d pass it along.
It´s never too late
This is the man you climb the mountain to meet
See inside the portapotty
Hes a real deal teacher. The david mc kenna of biology lol
Because he looks awesome or because he's doing his job?
Life is a popularity contest.
i agree, his speech comes across so impeccably articulate and organised as if he were reading a script, but of course it's just his immense knowledge and expertise
Randomly found these lectures in a KZhead rabbit hole and I couldn't be happier. I'm so grateful to be able to listen to Stanford lectures for free. I wish I had professors like this man in college.
I’m not even taking this class but I listen to his lectures every night on my way home from work. I love the way he talks and explains things.
He's a behavioral genius, don't let him suck you in. Be sure you're getting something out of it too ☺️
Just a comment to honor the man who wrote an hour and a half lecture subtitles. This man is a true hero
Google literally does that with voice control
You mean Google devs who wrote the code for this thing to work.
@@Andrew-dj4df yes, you're right..
@@taylorbarkermusic its a shame that FB now use it to make transcripts of your voice messages for their collection...
just a comment to honor the man/men/women who wrote many hours and many halves writing speech to text algorithms for google to be able to do this, they are true heroes
I'm a simple old woman, a farmer from Qazakhstan. I study English. And I'm captivated by videos of this professor. Because of them, I better understand English and biology. Thanks so much for such videos!!!!
Very niiice!!!
Seems like you are not that simple ;7)
@@jonaruny3977 🙄 seriously?
Great to see u here! Knowledge is a universal language! 😁 Btw can I ask is Qazakhstan the same country as Kazakhstan? And is Qazakhstan the proper way to spell your country's name?
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"Yea, he's a coward. But he makes really good milkshakes, so we keep him around."
Right now, I am procrastinating working on my Master's thesis by watching these lectures. Maybe I will just study again.
Professor: Why have you taken this course? Student: *_yes_*
its cool how 2010 humor is still similar to current
*Standford University Student*
I felt that
THE ADVANCE DESIGNS HAD TO COME FIRST. LET'S TAKE A BIRD AS A EXAMPLE OF HAVING THE ADVANCE DESIGN OF WINGS. WINGS ENABLE IT TO FLY HIGH UP IN THE TREES WHERE IT SHELTERS ITSELF, WHERE IT REPRODUCES AND IS SAFE FROM BEING EATEN BY PREDATORS. IF BIRDS HAD TO WAIT MILLIONS OF YEARS TO DEVELOP WINGS AS EVOLUTION SUGGESTS. BIRDS WOULD HAVE BEEN A THANKSGIVING DAY TURKEY FOR THE ANTS AND GONE EXTINCT. FOR ANY OF THESE SPECIES TO HAVE SURVIVED. IT IS ONLY THROUGH THEM HAVING THE ADVANCE DESIGN FROM THE START, WHICH KEPT THE SPECIES FROM BECOMING EXTINCT. WHICH ALSO ANSWERS THE QUESTION OF WHICH CAME FIRST, THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG. THROW CHARLES DARWIN'S THEORY OF EVOLUTION WHICH STARTED ALL THIS OTHER CRAP RIGHT INTO THE DUMPSTER, BECAUSE IT'S ALL BUUUUUULLSHIT.
@@Frank289100 I hope you have gotten professional help since leaving these embarrassing rants under a video you clearly didn't even watch.
Reading through the comments section of this video shows an amazing thirst for knowledge. So many people who are not in college and not taking this course are captivated. It's refreshing to see the internet used for something productive. (And thank you Stanford for posting these videos on KZhead. This is the second course I'm working through and it's genuinely made me want to go to Stanford. I have a fear of our school system and a distaste for debt but these professors make me feel like it might be worth it.)
Still not worth it.
What was the first course you took?
Idk I’m kinda a performance hands on guy. You know, a battlefield guy for say.
Good luck!
Well said :)
“Why are you taking this class?” “Yes”
I went to a private Christian school and as such, never had the opportunity to explore thess subjects. now when I find things like this on KZhead I listen to them while I clean or drive 👏
Why have you taken this course? Person: yes Truly ahead of the time
Ikr
this is the kind of thing that justifies youtube.
bevaconme well said my friend :)
Agree^^^
bevaconme Thank god i read your comment, I was just about to take youtube out to the forrest and shoot it.
+bevaconme Yes. This and 1 gallon milk challenge.
bevaconme, I absolutely agree!
Iv been working on cars for 7 years. Figured this would be interesting. I didn’t know Stanford put entire courses on KZhead. Thank you
I started listening to this to fall asleep. And I got more and more awake as the lecture went on.
This series of lectures is one of the best things that happened in my life. Immensely illuminating, enjoyable, thought-provoking and above all conducted by a fantastic teacher. Such a privilege to have free access to them.
Only thing is that we aren’t getting any legal recognition for them, but I don’t need that! All I need is knowledge, I don’t want to spend years in school for this, I can just get this amazing knowledge here!
THINGS DO ADAPT BUT NOTHING EVOLVED. EVERYTHING WAS IN IT'S ADVANCE FORM FROM THE BEGINNING. IF THAT WASN'T THE CASE ALL LIFE WOULD HAVE GONE EXTINCT. WITHOUT A DOUBT THERE IS A CREATOR WE KNOW AS GOD.
@@Frank289100 So our human Gene for breathing underwater was planned? we still have it but it is utterly useless i guess thats ''Smart Design?'' Theres a fish that has a spike on its skull its known to accidently kill itself by piercing its own brain, but i guess thats smart design? Emu's still have claws but no muscle going to it its utterly useless but i guess thats also smart design? the fact our DNA is useless for 90% is just a mistake? (Definitly not the remains of evolutionary processes weeding out non usefull attributes that have no need in further generations) I don't think you understand what the word ''Evolution' means.. please go back to school and maybe not a ''bible study' this time. These videos should teach you alot that you haven't learned at age 14 in basic biology.
@@giocommentary 1. A HUMAN GENE FOR BREATHING UNDERWATER? THERE ARE BILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD TODAY. AND HOW MANY BILLIONS HAVE COME AND GONE. SO WITHIN THE GENE POOL OF BILLIONS AND HAVING THIS RECESSIVE GENE FOR BREATHING UNDERWATER AS CLAIMED. THE CHANCES OF THIS RECESSIVE GENE BECOMING DOMINATE IN AT LEAST ONE PERSON HAS NEVER HAPPENED, TO NEITHER THIS DATE NOR THE PAST. WHICH IS DUE TO THE FACT THAT THIS GENE DOESN'T AND NEVER EXISTED. ANOTHER BULLSHIT THEY FEED YOU "JACKASSES OF ACADEMIA". 2. THERE IS A FISH WITH A SPIKE ON ITS SKULL KNOWN TO ACCIDENTALLY KILL ITSELF. A RHINO ALSO HAS A SPIKE AND DOESN'T ACCIDENTALLY KILL ITSELF. A BIRD HAS A BEAK AND FLY'S INTO A WINDOW AND KILLS ITSELF, SO WHAT IS YOUR POINT? 3. A EMU HAS CLAWS AND NO MUSCLES GOING TO IT? AND IF IT KICKS YOU, IT CAN ALSO KILL YOU WITH IT'S SHARP CLAWS? SO IT STILL CAN DELIVER AND DEADLY BLOW WITHOUT HAVING MUSCLES WITHIN THOSE CLAWS. SINCE THIS BIRD USES IT'S FEET CONSTANTLY AND RUNS. HAVING MUSCLES IN THEIR CLAWS WOULD MEAN WITH THERE CONSTANT MOVEMENTS THOSE MUSCLE WOULD DEVELOP AND THUS THEREFORE OBSTRUCTING AND HINDERING THERE MOVEMENTS. SO NOT HAVING MUSCLE PRESENT IS OBVIOUSLY A INTELLIGENT DESIGN. FINAL CONCLUSION: THERE IS A CREATOR GOD YOU "JACKASS OF ACADEMIA". THIS TERM I COINED YEARS BACK FITS YOU PERFECTLY.
.ENGLISH PROFICIENCY yes!
I like going to sleep listening to these lectures he’s like the Bob Ross of Behavioral Biology
I was thinking the same thing
I slept with this playing in the background and got the most random dream ever
I did not intentionally fall asleep to this I woke up because I dreamt I was in a college class on mole rats and woke up to him talking about Mole Rats LMAO autoplay is weird
Couldn't put it better if I tried.
When Bob referred to “Happy Mistakes” it made all of us feel accepted. Those two words flipped our mental pancake from a negative to a positive. I think Bob is the accumulation of everything good, inventive, respectful, and loving. His subtle voice let us create our own thoughts and respect his approach to pushing positivity. I think I will wear my Bob Ross T-Shirt today…
Seriously I had good teachers. As a 40 year old man this guy legit makes me want to go back to school. I love his teaching style
This is seriously my favorite teacher. His methods of relaying a comprehensive understanding of extremely complex ideas and information is impeccable.
4:00 perks of being an osteologist -An inevitable logic about how organisms function, built or have evolved exists -What behavioural evolution is about: you can take the same exact principles and apply them to thinking about the evolution of behaviour. 9:00 role of darwin in evolution -Natural selection = mechanism of evolution -evolution = traits in populations change over time -speciation = traits can change enough that in fact, we get formation of new species altogether -steps darwanian evolution is built upon: 1. There are traits that are heritable (genetic?) 2. There is variability among those traits (different ways these traits can occur, some versions of those traits more adaptive than others) -all of this isn't about survival of the most adapted, it's about the reproduction of (number of copies of genes you leave in the next generation) 12:00 how do you apply these to behavior? -assumption we'll use again and again: some behaviours are heritable 18:53 animals, including us, behave not for the good of the species/of the group, but to maximize the number of copies of genes left in the next generation -and what we see is 3 ways (building blocks) in which this could occur: 1. individual selection: built around the notion that sometimes the behavior of an animal is meant to optimize the number of copies of its genes that it leaves in the next generation by itself reproducing (i) natural selection: processes bringing out an organism which is more adaptive (ii) sexual selection: selecting for traits that have no value whatsoever in terms of survival or anything like that, but only because (for some reason) the opposite sex likes those that way 2. kin selection/inclusive fitness: sometimes you will get behavior which really decreases the reproductive success of an individual in order to enhance the success of a RELATIVE -but constraint: all of your relatives don't share all your genes with you (different degrees of relatedness) (according to vicious logics of mathematics) ("I will gladly lay down my life for 2 brothers or 8 cousins" ~ Haldane) 31:00 3. reciprocal altruism: synergistic benefits of cooperation (rock-papers-scissors equilibrium) -got to be smart animals who'll do this + long-lived enough -should cheat if you can get away with it -another key facet: becoming very good at detecting somebody is cheating against you -an awful lot of social behaviour is built around animals either trying to get away with something or spotting somebody else doing the same (evolutionary psychology: more attuned to detecting cheating than spontaneous acts of kindness) 41:10 what is the optimal strategy in a particular social species for a particular individual? (when to co-operate, when to cheat?) -GAME THEORY= the notion that there are (formal) games, that have mathematically optimal strategies (or multiple strategies, multi-equilibrium) (starting off in the world of people studying economics, negotiation, and diplomacy etc) -what came out was all sorts of models of how to optimize behaviour in terms of game theory -the building block = prisoner's dilemma -starts to introduce notions of irrationality within economics 45:00 how do you optimize prisoner's dilemma? -Tit-for-tat strategy -however they are very vulnerable to signal error -better strategy: forgiving tit-for-tat (fTfT), ends the continuing see-saw pattern -but vulnerability: you could be exploited -an even better strategy: long enough TfT --> fTfT, i.e. switched over to forgiving tit-for-tat -solved the problem of signal error, but forgiving too readily and being taken advantage of
Why doesn’t this have more likes?
Damn you are literally taking notes
i love you
I just write that on my note, thank you
How the hell did you write this comment?? 🤯
My highschool teachers would have a stroke if they knew I was watching these taking notes.
my parents as well
Me too!
Why?
@@jamesjenkins9480 cus we didn't do it when we needed to.
@@jamesbennettdrums As a teacher I can tell you, I'd be overjoyed. Even if we aren't our best selves some days, we're happy when our students take interest in learning, even if the students weren't ready in our class.
I WISH I could afford to take these classes, I WISH I could go back and do something with my good brain. I got the phone number sequence the first time 100%. I wasted my life I’m already 44 years old and i could have been someone who helped many people because I have certain passions that are very much needed in todays society. If you have a chance to get an education be grateful that you matter enough to you to do so. If i could only go back id get straight A’s no matter if I had anyone to be proud of me Id be proud of me.
If you're not proud of yourself, go back! You're smart enough, and there's ways to afford it. You still have over half your life to help people
This is the best, I haven’t felt curiosity and zest for life like this for years. I’ve been up all night, I can’t stop listening to Sapolsky speak.
Free college for everyone. It starts like this.
to learn something should be free. to teach someone something should be free. lol right?
@@kmahealani5943 Public school is already free for 12 years with teacher's pay taken care of through taxation. Why not 14 or 16 years? I think we can cut into the $700B yearly defense budget to pay for 2 more years of school for higher education. Hard for you to argue against that.
@@user-gk3lu1gg9t hear hear!
At 35:00 he embarks on an eloquent description of reciprocal altruism which perfectly alludes to the necessity of a free (or at very least easily affordable) excellent education for ALL. The sum of the many collective advantages for human society are priceless If our species consistently engaged in such behavior this has the potential to benefit. ALL our lives.
Off course have to be. Free for whole society.. (off course it cost a bunch of money and have to be assumed by gov) As in Cuba. US education system is absoltuly not a good social model....
I am a film school graduate and just like the guy Professor pointed out in the beginning, I want to make films with better understanding of human behavior so my characters are better. Thank you Stanford for saving my money, thank you KZhead for letting Stanford do it.
Same
I'd love to see you guy's work.... You see, I'm a Parisian film school student (Sorbonne Paris).
i'm a 16 year old dropout due to financial reasons and this is great help! thank you to whoever it was that decided to make this lecture available online for anyone and of course thank you to sapolsky for being such a great professor and simplifying things so everyone can understand no matter how much knowledge they hold. i truly believe sapolsky would be able to teach dolphins quantum physics if he wanted to lol.
yo i'm so sorry you had to drop out. i'm 16 too and i couldn't imagine needing to drop school. all the best!
The fact that I'm from Brazil and I can watch this is an internet miracle!
Wow. I always wanted to have an an encyclopedia set before the Internet, but we couldn't afford it. I grew up in a poor family and now I can listen to this amazing Stanford professor as I wash dishes. He is such a great speaker. Thanks Prof!
Hello sir. Can I ask how old you are and where you are from. It is very inspiring to me how there are adults my parents age, who grew up without the internet, and now use the internet to explode their knowledge. I am inexpressibly grateful to have grown up in the information age--and not have to tread to the library anytime I wanted to know something. If I want to know something I literally say "hey google ________" and I know it.
I'm getting old
@@masonreynoso3077 How can you be sure google is accurate? Walking is good for your whole body and the touch of paper is also.
Agreed. Cognition and brain pathways as well from the use of small motors etc. Focus and concentration skills , socialising peacefully, enquiring and questioning and then searching with the whole body and mind, not just believing what google comes up with, you might as well go to the pub and ask each patron for an answer to the same question and follow those up...
@@masonreynoso3077 the problem with Google is that people don't have to memorize anything anymore, they can always look it up on Google. In old days, we carried the knowledge in our heads, not our phones. The brain also works differently when you read books, other brain parts get activated and you build new neuron connections. In other words, you become smarter. I'm 36 and I remember studying and passing exams without Google.
Everyone who reads this, we don't know each other and probably never will but I wish you all the best in life and all the luck in the world stay safe!
That will get you a smile but no cookie.
My wish as well.
Likewise friend, I hope your life goes well, and that you achieve happiness
Thank you . I wish the same to you friend !
you too
When Bob Ross referred to those “Happy Mistakes” it made all of us feel accepted. Those two words flipped our mental pancake from a negative to a positive. I think Bob is the accumulation of everything good, inventive, respectful, and loving. His subtle voice let us create our own thoughts and respect his approach to pushing positivity. I think I will wear my Bob Ross T-Shirt today…
How many 'uh', and 'umm' are there in his one and half hour lecture? None! What an amazing, articulate, intelligent professor he is! 1:14 The scientist he mentioned is John Holland. He received the first Ph.D. in Communication Sciences (obviously related to Computer Science) from U of Michigan (1959). But the first person to receive a Ph. D in Computer Science was sister Mary Keller from U of Wisconsin (1965).
Why would someone dislike such a fountain of knowledge?!Thank you Sapolsky and Stanford.
No prob!😜😎🙌💯
Lies again? Smooth Beer
I guess those people don't agree with the material in his class. That's fine, as long as the person clears their bias mind, understands where the professor is coming from, and the material that is presented. Then they may disagree with justification.
Now there are 0 dislikes! Depression cured!!!
Took his course in 1996. It was truly a pleasure.
Daniel Francis is that really the best you can take from this
@@rocantenrocanten4150 а ведь все таки никакого курса по эволюционной психологии не хватит, чтобы объяснить такие вот перипетии загадочной русской луши
@@1v966 чо он написал, комментарий удалился
Farhad Sani oh really? That’s amazing was he a really good professor?
I envy you :)
Okay a lot of productive stuff exists on youtube, glad I came through this I'm a math student but here after Anand Gandhi's recommendation I found it totally compelling it feels like I was sitting somewhere in the corner of the class room. I wish we all had such teachers in our lives. Thanks a ton for uploading these videos man, looking forward to finish all of them.
I’m a high school student and I always believed that any topic is interesting if you make it interesting and this man confirms it. I may not understand some things he’s mentioning but he makes me want to keep listening
THIS is the purpose of the internet. Thank you, Stanford.
Pretty sure it’s porn
@@jphanson It was military research first, education second (documented) porn third.
fiona fiona HTTP (Hot Thai Threesome Porn), TCP (Trans Crossdressing Porn), IP (Intellectual Porn), ARP (Augmented Reality Porn)....ICMP, IGMP, UDP etc. it’s all for porn open your eyes sheeple
@@jphanson The first dirty words transmitted predate those protocols
fiona fiona Yes I think dirty words and language in general probably predate the modern internet
I just found this it's 2018 (I'm a baby boomer). Extremely interesting. Tried to binge watch, got to the middle of the 2nd lecture before my brain got sucked out. Taking a break to ponder and percolate. I can't believe little ol' me can "attend" these lectures. Who knew? Fantastic! Now it is possible for me to get my dream education. Who needs a paper? Knowledge is power.
hope you stick to it! is funny to watch the numbers on each lecture and how they dwindle. 2mil watched the first one. only 900k the second, 400 the third...it seems that only 150k see them all. That's less than 10% of the people who start. If you do it, you should be proud :)
Same here haha!
@Jay Bee, people buying things probably pays you income.
That is the sign of a good professor. I was sitting in a math class, and I told the student next to me about this professor, and I looked at our professor and I saw the strangest look. Funny!!
baby boomers deserve millennials. X, Z and your dad find this drivel
0:00 Intro 4:00 Behaviour evolution, Nash equilibrium 9:00 socio biology, evolutionary psychology Darwin, natural selection, Traits, speciation 12:00 Darwinianism and Behavior 16:00 zebras and group selection Survival vs Reproduction of the fittest 19:00 3 building blocks 1. Individual selection, Sexual selection 23:30 2. Kin selection 36:00 3. Reciprocal altruism, reciprocal co-operation 41:30 game theory Prisoner's Dilemma Homo - Economists Tit for Tat strategy, prone to signal errors 54:40 Forgiving Tit for Tat 59:00 Pavlov Examples : Bats, Fish, and Gender Fish, #titfortat 1:07:00 Reciprocal Altruism 1:11:00 why it doesnot work? 1:16:00 The possibility of Mutation 1:17:00 Three Pieces #behaviour 1:29:00 tournament species vs pair bonding species
Awesome! Thanks so much. You're amazing 😍
thank uyou so much FOR ALL THESE CLASSES I LOVE BIOLOGY BUT I LIVE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE THIS IS CANDIES FOR ME
A 34 year old first year Psychology student in South Africa, I happened upon these lectures by accident. My world is changed forever! Thank you.
" The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know." 💬Albert Einstein
I think that was aristotle
@@Hypie582 It's possible that we're both right, as well as both wrong. The quote was derived from Greek philosopher Socrates quote, whom existed before either one. It's quite possible, others may have came to realize this paradox even before Socrates, but just never quoted it.
Fun fact: Most quotes circling Einstein gets credit for aren't actually from him, not even the famous ones. He was a great scientist but a pretty shitty human being
@@forensikarie Your statement seems to be more of a personal opinion of him, than a fact. Perhaps, he, like the rest of us humankind, had his own struggles as well. "We never know what others face, until we are put in their place." (A quote I just came up with at the top of my head. However, out of all the abundance of people, and languages in the world, from the beginning of speech, I'm quite sure has been said before)
@@forensikarie How was he a shitty human being? Bold claim.
I'm 61 and I love learning, especially human and animal behavior. So glad these lectures exist. I'm a retired special Ed teacher...talk about lessons in human behavior!
I will forever be thankful for Standford to show this. Nothing is a better commercial for higher education, than an amazing professor.
Wow, loved this lecture. Fascinating. I am 70 and wish I could have attended college and listened to this guy.
I hope you live for ages as well as you might Maureen, coupled I hope you have had many offspring who share or build upon your qualities
Thanks to Technology, you did get to listen to his lecture. Something that was not easily possible as a kid 50 years ago. While I do listen to him, I don't have to agree with him. But then again, I am not seeking his approval thru a good grade!
"Some times a chicken is just an egg's way to make another egg" he says triumphantly..
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I was looking for this comment!
As a teacher his nothing less then brilliant bonding techniques should remind all teachers that we are all students as well. If u can't tell I'm very impressed. I term not often used unleased surprised. Well done.
*unless surprised (typo)
Introduction 3:55 Logic of Optimization 🦒🐭 5:48 Darwinism 9:00 Social behaviour 12:01 0. Simplistic misconceptions 🐊 14:10 1. Individual selection 🥚 18:46 2. Kin selection 25:51 3. Reciprocal altruism 🤝 36:31 a. Game theory 40:55 b. Animal Behaviour 🦇🐟🐠 59:49 c. Exceptions 🦁🐀🧬 1:08:52 Animal behaviour Tournament vs. pair-bonding species 👱 1:18:37 Closing 1:36:15
Good one bro, wonderful 👍😁
"Yeah, get the old guy in the river!" "Let's sacrifice Grandma for the economy!" Welp. There it is.
Lots of Grandmas being sacrificed in our new Brave World these days. So many years trying to work out how to do it without anyone getting too angry. And now, bingo! They found a way.
Except the buffalos behavior is necessary for survival whereas ours is sadistic and antisocial, actually going against the survival of the tribe.
@@incisive2641 Never said anything about morality.
Megan Heinley It’s not about morality. It’s about what is evolutionarily advantageous. The buffalos sacrifice the old weak member which enables the young and reproductively active ones to survive and pass on their genes. Whereas what we are doing in the United States, i.e. denying science and ‘sacrificing grandmas’ in order to reopen the economy, provides no discernible evolutionary advantage to our species or tribe or whatever. It’s unfair to the buffaloes to compare the two.
@@incisive2641 It is actually survival. Letting the older folks die off means spending less money on Medicare, social security, pensions, etc. They actually don't contribute to improving or maintaining "the tribe" anymore. Not saying this is the right thing to do, just speaking from a survivalist standpoint. In America, I think we have more than enough to go around but we're still hardwired in some of our behaviors.
he looks like the LVL 100 botanist NPC you buy healing herbs to make concentrated healing potions++
Totally dude
Somehow i think we the NPCs in his game, lol
Oh yes, _healing herbs_ . Reminds me of Leo from That 70's Show
100% max lvl BOTANIST [attempt at comedy ... :)] but love this man and much needed
I actually laughed at this one instead of just exhaling a bit faster through my nostrils
7M views. Wow. For a simple lecture this is well done. And of the viewers, probably close to zero are actually taking this or any other class.
Guy's the Bob Ross of biology
This is a hilarious comment, so true 😂
looks like the algorithm picked up Sapolsky's lectures and threw them into my reccomended. Time to binge!
Gee. I had to search like a hound dog to find exactly what I wanted. Ah, well, we're here, and he is worth it.
43:07 leads up to fascinating nuerological differences finding 44:20 "homo econimus" 44:38 brain scanner...pleasure center...some people activate when they stab someone in the back, others when they achieve mutual cooperation...
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I've taken in more info with these lectures in a few days, than I have in my whole first year of Uni. Fantastic teaching methods!
"It is not from the benevolence (kindness) of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."
I just found this series. This man is funny, well-articulated and charismatic. Great!
They are why University was fun for me , teachers like this. If they have passion for the subject it transfers to the students 👍
I can't believe it's not Bakker!
I've just started a Psychology degree I can afford and in the meantime I'm going to boost it with some quality lectures and books. Thank you for making these available!
Best advice I can give you is read the clinicians!
The behavioral strategies open up a whole human behavior dimension for me, that just makes me how easy it is to make two groups of people who are coordinating, start fighting, by introducing some kind of miscommunication between them
I happened upon this by accident, but I can't stop watching it. Mesmerizing. This guy is a fantastic teacher and the subject matter is beyond interesting.
People, basing your thoughts of large-scale concepts, such as human behavior, on this one lecture is BAD. In the first lecture in Sapolsky's series, the one before this, he talks about how categorical thinking is a very easy bias to fall victim to if you think about a concept from only one direction, such as evolution. If you watch the previous lecture, this professor is against basing your opinion on one aspect of thought. Throughout the course, he talks about several ways of looking at things, evolution being only one. His goal is that by the end of the 25 lecture series, you realize the fault in categorical thinking. Watching only one lecture about evolution will strongly support this type of thinking, so be aware of this! Evolution appears to explain everything, until you learn about other explanations! No one thing explains it all. It is an intricate intertwining of many disciplines that makes humans the way they are, and this is the message that Professor Sapolsky tries to get across by the end of the entire course.
Does this whole rambling, fallacious rant boil down to: you believe in god?
***** I appreciate your response, but I'd rather get fourPO's answer; I wouldn't presume to know what someone else is or isn't thinking, especially since I couldn't possibly know, and neither could you, even though you're answering on his or her behalf. Since we obviously perceive fourPO to be saying something different, I'm simply sharply inquiring why fourPO thinks that Professor Sapolsky is contradicting himself in regards to the first lecture on categorization. If fourPO has watched the series, as you suggest, then why is he/she confused about Professor Sapolsky's approach?
***** Wow, talk, about barely concealed knee-jerk reactions... chill out, mate, nobody's having a religious war, okay.
***** take your own advice, champ, stick to the facts, don't pretend to be able to read peoples minds, motives etc. - and certainly keep to the science instead of douchey comments. Again, relax and stop escalating things. Let's keep it that way huh?
+fourPOdimethylT evolution is central to any study of living things though, so independent of the angle you take, evolution has to be somewhat central. evolution is not "just one direction". we are evolved things, the very capacity for me to write this affirmation is an evolved trait, the capacity for us to question about the factors that compose our thoughts and behaviors, including the very ability to create said question, are evolved traits. that being said you're right, but in the end i don't really agree with the one example you decided to use (who knows why you choose that example, do you know why?)
Thank you for sharing this for free.
I stumbled upon these videos randomly. My job requires me to do very little and I needed a distraction. I can’t help but thank god I found these! They pass the time and are extremely interesting. Im not an auditory learner, but this professor makes it easy. Also, it’s preparing me for my fall semester to prepare me for similar classes I’m taking! Thank you. Can’t wait to finish these
I’m completely amazed by this series. for sure going to watch it all. he makes it easy - and plearsuble - to spent hours learning about such complex themes. what a didatic teacher. so glad that youtube algorithmus recomended it to me, and even more that technology makes me abble to see it, eleven years later, in Brazil. thanks so much Stanford for having this posted! really life changing
I don't really know what I'm doing here, I'm about to get my bachelor's degree in translation here in Venezuela but i already finished one of the readings he assigned in the first video and I'm watching two videos a week. This is so illuminating
do you have a link to the readings? I listened to the 1st lecture but I couldn't find them
You are learning, that's what you are doing here.
Thank you for the lectures! I'm an attorney at law, and despite of my educational background I found your lectures very invigorating and comprehensible. It helps me to learn how the "truth" is to be seen and questioned, and to sharp the critical mind. The examples from the 1. lecture of the scientist and professors from 20. century that made great damage to the world shows the importance of the ethical and moral responsibility of the scientific ways and rules that needs to be carried in every moment.
I love this teacher. Any students taken his class will not ever be waiting their time. This is how you keep students engaged. 👏
I would give a lot to have been in this classroom, 12 years ago. Thank you for allowing the world to see these videos, Sapolsky. They bring me joy.
This is the first time, I am listening to a lecture on a topic like this without losing attention even for a bit. Professor is awesome
THIS IS JUST AMAZING. what a privilege to be able to see this.
I think the lecture was a very good look at how our everyday experiences illustrate the subjects and especially liked the natural progression of the class models and how they are relatable in more fields.
2 alarming things: - My dinner was literally delivered to my front door and went cold because I was too focused on watching this guy speak. - I stayed up for a day and a half to fix my depressed sleep pattern, only to stay up a second night watching this guy speak.
it's 0330 same
Currently attending a junior college in FL, but this Professor is awesome. With my major being Psychology I'm definitely learning a lot from his lectures.
You should try YaleCourses in Psychology!!! They are really good too, I have learned a lot with those courses
Hope you graduated by now. How is it going? Where you working now?
"That son of a bitch, I can't believe he's doing that to me. We've worked together for years, I can't believe he's doing... oh he's pretending to go forward but I see he's not really doing that, fortunately that guy isn't coming forward anymore either, phew." I've never been so invested in the adventures of this fish.
I am glad that I am alive in this era of KZhead! Education accessible for all!
Amazing. If we had one teacher in our classes each year of our education like this professor who loved their subjects as much most of us would never stop learning in life or consider our education as boring, and something to get through in order to get a better, or higher paying job . Spot on professor. Kudos
You. You just made my day. When I started watching this I wasn't expecting to suddenly have an epiphany about how couples and family in my story's vampire society worked. I swear, I thought I was watching this for character development at a much smaller scale, not on the scale of the whole species, but here I am. This has had the effect of baking soda and vinegar in the sink that represents my understanding of the universe I myself have been creating
The tit for tat strategies involving the elements of forgiving or cooperation gave me a great insight into how modern relationships when disrupted can be helped to get back on feet!
Interesting. I just fling that turd of a relationship as far as I can.
Exactly why I’m watching
The awesomeness of this lecture series is diminished by the sudden stops. It’s still pretty awesome.
Sapolsky is one of the brightest points in contemporary theory and science
So grateful to have Robert Sopolsky lectures to listen to with my phone anytime.He brightens up my day with his awesome, inquisitive, brilliant and funny stuff. Not sure what good it's doing me to know all this about my species, but because he's teaching it, it sure doesn't make me cynical.
I can't speak for everyone experiencing this, but It helps you relate and understand socio-cultural connections as well as the evolution of mankind's selection process. As well it helps you understand ploys in our society and how to better counteract relations involving unhealthy tit-for-tat style tactics.
It's insightful to see, how female sexual selection is the dilemma of human civilization.
Steve Bergman Steve Bergman wow, I feel really bad for Mr. Walter Mittybird.
Perfect lecture. If he was a professor at my university I would want to stay forever instead of waiting to leave.
I usually take my time because rushing out the door is a great way to lose things. Nothing says take your time like the risk of losing 350 dollar prescription Oakleys.
Yes. He’s very focused on entertaining
I hope this professor comes to my university
THE ADVANCE DESIGNS HAD TO COME FIRST. LET'S TAKE A BIRD AS A EXAMPLE OF HAVING THE ADVANCE DESIGN OF WINGS. WINGS ENABLE IT TO FLY HIGH UP IN THE TREES WHERE IT SHELTERS ITSELF, WHERE IT REPRODUCES AND IS SAFE FROM BEING EATEN BY PREDATORS. IF BIRDS HAD TO WAIT MILLIONS OF YEARS TO DEVELOP WINGS AS EVOLUTION SUGGESTS. BIRDS WOULD HAVE BEEN A THANKSGIVING DAY TURKEY FOR THE ANTS AND GONE EXTINCT. FOR ANY OF THESE SPECIES TO HAVE SURVIVED. IT IS ONLY THROUGH THEM HAVING THE ADVANCE DESIGN FROM THE START, WHICH KEPT THE SPECIES FROM BECOMING EXTINCT. WHICH ALSO ANSWERS THE QUESTION OF WHICH CAME FIRST, THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG. THROW CHARLES DARWIN'S THEORY OF EVOLUTION WHICH STARTED ALL THIS OTHER CRAP RIGHT INTO THE DUMPSTER, BECAUSE IT'S ALL BUUUUUULLSHIT.
My dad describes me as having a Student Mentality, and this instructor is exactly why!
That's such a privilege to be able to listen to these lectures in free access!
This is a gift . This guy is the best ( period). I am surprised that his courses are free on KZhead. Personally I would pay for them if I had to .
I wish more people would watch these, as they open the mind to how and why we all do what we do. So many people are stuck with the ancient Greek concept of willpower, blaming people for behaviour instead of learning how to avoid triggering it.
What a time to be alive y’all. This is the one gem I found in 2020. Thank you, Professor!
"it is best to teach in such a way, that the pupil does not realize that they are learning...until its too late!!!!" - Richard Feyman this guy gets it.
I watch these in my spare time. The lecturers way of teaching really appeals to me and though I’m only studying an Access to HE course in the UK, I still find this massively interesting. I can’t believe I get to watch/listen in for free!