May 5, 2010) Robert Sapolsky explores behavioral patterns of human reproduction. He focuses on proximal and distal motivations, orgasm and fertility facilitation, non-reproductive sex, hormonal and cerebral sexual functions, and the differences and similarities between humans and animals in various physiological realms. Stanford University: http://www.stanford.edu/ Stanford Department of Biology: http://biology.stanford.edu/ Stanford University Channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/stanford
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Why is my method of procrastinating on my class work watching another class from a school I don’t even attend
This is fascinating. So awesome that Stanford and other universities post video of lectures online! Think about how much more educated we can all become.
The bad thing about graduating from university is that you no longer get the chance to sit in a lecture on a stormy autumn morning with a hot tea and a professor who absolutely burns for his field of research. Thank you SO MUCH for making these available!
His beard deserves another Phd
"a relationship is the price you pay for the anticipation of it"- wow, that phrase just blew me away.
Having these lectures put out to the public for free is absolutely incredible. I barely passed high school due to general laziness and some pretty severe anxiety mediated with drug use. Now that im a clean adult any knowledge i can gain is a huge blessing. Thank you stanford university for allowing me to learn.
props to the camera man for panning and zooming for almost 2 hours
I'M STUDYING AT YouTube University (YTU) without tuition fees
I love his humorous comments. However, I feel lucky to be able to hear his lectures online, getting a virtual Stanford education! :)
How do you even take notes? I'm captivated by the flow state he's in.
putting standford on my resume after watching all these lectures
im going through these lectures like a damn tv show
Aww, man. I'm 8 minutes in and I love that prof. It's a ‘fun‘ and interesting subject. He doesn't try to get rid of the fun. Also, he is so well-spoken. Every word is enunciated meticulously, the language varied and precise, all the while remaining unbelievably fluent.
That is a remarkable beard.
Imagine that you need to have “the talk” and your dad Is this guy
25:40 "Masturbation... Because what else is there to do in the zoo? For the animals..." - that line cracked me up. This is like a genius comedy show combined with a super informative biology lecture.
Smoking a blunt and listening to this dude is life.
15:12 If anyone is wondering what Mr. Saposlky is refering to here (what he adresses his students to look at the extended notes), he is refering to Randomized Responding, a technique invented by Joel Cohen. It works something like this: suppose 10% of the population does Sexual Behavior A and hesitates to admit that. Give people the questionaire asking about this in private with the instructions: a) if you have done Sexual Behavior A, indicate yes; b) if you have not, flip a coin; heads, say you have done A, tails, give the truthful answer of no. As a result 45% of people will say they have not; double that, and it tells you that 90% of people have not, 10% have, but anyone who was resistant to admitting the latter can claim their answer was coin toss-determined.
The ability to mentally process mountains on top of mountains of intellectual knowledge organized in topics….and verbalize it so accessibly and clearly is stunning…relaxed speaking yet with almost zero breaks….the Einstein of lectures Robert is
"a relationship is the price you pay for the anticipation of it" might be the hardest line ever said in a stanford lecture hall