Robert Sapolsky | Father-Offspring Interviews

Episode 133 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the work of Stanford’s Karl Deisseroth that earned him his recent Nobel Prize, as well as a deep dive into the research on whether wealthier people really are more selfish.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Deisseroth’s Nobel Prize winning work)

00:22:57 Question 2 (Wealth and empathy/selfishness)

Episode 132 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include what hemispherectomies teach us about neuroplasticity, and the strange new “sport” that is sperm racing.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Hemispherectomies and neuroplasticity)

00:18:22 Question 2 (Sperm racing)

Episode 131 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode includes discussion of laughing diseases and similar “epidemics,” and the role that hookworms play in our immune systems, as well as touching on the case at Cornell that is dominating headlines.

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00:00 Intro/A Comment on Cornell

00:00:48 Question 1 (Laughing diseases)

00:26:09 Question 2 (Hookworms and our immune systems)

Episode 130 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the worldwide falling fertility rates, and whether this is a concern for humankind, as well as the theories as to why we have this mysterious thing called a bladder.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Dropping fertility rates)

00:20:17 Question 2 (Why we have bladders)

Episode 129 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include how birth order actually influences personality, sexual orientation, and IQ (among other traits), and the leading theories on why we and other species yawn, along with how yawns just might be extremely sexy.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (The effect of birth order)

00:20:17 Question 2 (Yawning)

Episode 128 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include how our brains measure time, and when they fail to, and the Shakespearean opera all about baboons.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (How the brain measures time)

00:22:18 Question 2 (The Baboon Opera)

Episode 127 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode focuses on the Lindsay Clancy trial, discussing both the scientific and legal aspects of it and their interaction, and how this could be a landmark case for psychiatric diseases and the law. 

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00:00 Intro

00:00:39 Part 1 (Context for the case)

00:05:58 Part 2 (The Neurobiology Perspective)

00:20:25 Part 3 (The Legal Aspect)

Episode 126 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include if the gut microbiome can affect the brain, especially when it comes to psychiatric disorders, and the difference between shame and guilt-based cultures.

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00:00 Intro and Comments Response

00:04:28 Question 1 (Gut Microbiome and the brain)

00:20:54 Question 2 (Shame vs. guilt-based cultures)

Episode 125 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode includes discussion of some of the supposed neurobiological differences between introversion and extroversion and why they may be inaccurate, and the recent demonstration of mathematical abilities by some Spanish giraffe.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:17 Question 1 (Neurobiology of introversion and extroversion)

00:20:54 Question 2 (Giraffe that do math)

Episode 124 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the world of pseudoscience and conspiracy theories and how to talk to someone who believes them, and what would happen if we got rid of mosquitos once and for all.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Pseudoscience and conspiracy theories)

00:20:56 Question 2 (Could we eradicate mosquitos?)

Episode 123 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the relationship between the immune system, stress, and glucocorticoids, and why men keep coming close to being wiped out.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Autoimmunity, stress, and glucocorticoids)

00:15:17 Question 2 (Male Eradications)

Episode 122 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the potential danger that is mirror cells, and whether other apes laugh like we do.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Mirror Cells)

00:16:58 Question 2 Part 1 (Ape Laughter)

Episode 121 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the recent craze that is peptides and whether they really help strength and muscle growth, and how one trains their brain for a Spelling Bee, along with how a trend in Bees reflects a larger pattern of demographics in the U.S.

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00:00 Intro and Corrections

00:01:20 Question 1 (Peptides and muscle growth)

00:16:02 Question 2 Part 1 (Training for Spelling Bees)

00:25:52 Question 2 Part 2 (Bees and Demographic trends)

Episode 120 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include how the amygdala processes “us” and “them” in biracial individuals, as well as in other cases of intersectional identities, and what the mysterious eye floaters we all see really are.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Biracial individuals and amygdala categorization)

00:28:32 Question 2 (Eye floaters)

Episode 119 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode includes discussion of whether humans will evolve into different subspecies, inter- versus intra- genetic similarities of species, and why so many people are so attracted to bad boys.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Will humans speciate?)

00:13:20 Question 2 (“Shared” genes)

00:20:27 Question 3 (The appeal of bad boys)

Episode 118 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include moral scrupulosity OCD and whether it may be rooted in intergenerational trauma, with the the Armenian Genocide as an example lens, and the (slightly terrifying) case of a snake and fish cooperative hunting technique.  

BBC Krait and Trevally Clip:

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 Part 1 (Moral scrupulosity OCD)

00:08:21 Q1 Part 2 (Armenian Genocide)

00:17:43 Q1 Part 3 (Intergenerational Trauma)

00:27:39 Question 2 (Snake and Fish Cooperative Hunting)

Episode 117 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode focuses on work around plant intelligence and the amazing – though often oversold – things plants do.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Plants Part 1

00:14:26 Part 2

00:22:48 Part 3

Episode 116 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode includes discussion of Marchetti’s constant of human commuting, as well as why we humans shake hands and how other species do the same.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Marchetti’s Constant and Commuting)

00:15:06 Question 2 (Handshakes)

Episode 115 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include why some people eat more and others eat less under stress, and groundbreaking work that has shown the complex language skills of birds.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Stress and Eating)

00:20:10 Question 2 (Birds and Language)

Episode 114 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode focuses on the difference between Bipolar I and II, and the chimp civil war that has recently made Scientific headlines. 

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00:00 Intro

00:00:37 Question 1 (Bipolar II)

00:08:47 Question 2 (Chimp Civil War)

Episode 113 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include Acquired Savant Syndrome, how humans evolved to be dominant as generalists, and why organisms began to do sexual reproduction.

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00:00 Intro

00:01:07 Question 1 (Acquired Savant Syndrome)

00:12:51 Question 2 (Human dominance)

00:27:36 Question 3 (Sexual reproduction)

Episode 112 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses why women perceive more colors than men, the impact of long-term COVID on fetuses, and our closest relatives’ interest in crystals.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Gendered color perception)

00:09:56 Question 2 (COVID fetuses)

00:20:43 Question 3 (Chimps and crystals)

Episode 111 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include why we developed handedness and if we’re the only species, what work on “SuperAgers” can teach us about cognitive longevity, and why we find flatulence so darn funny.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:34 Question 1 (Handedness)

00:16:20 Question 2 (SuperAgers)

00:31:40 Question 3 (Why farts are funny)

Episode 110 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode includes discussion of whether parenting styles can influence sexual orientation, what sleepwalking is and how other animals “sleepwalk,” and the many other species that undergo sex changes. 

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Parenting and Sexual orientation)

00:05:23 Question 2 (Sleepwalking and other animals)

00:19:20 Question 3 (Sex Changing Species)

Episode 109 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the work of the late Robert Trivers, the intrusive thoughts that are the Call of the Void, and when animals adopt their own and other species.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Robert Trivers)

00:23:57 Question 2 (Call of the Void)

00:35:58 Question 3 (When Animals Adopt)

Episode 108 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include why the Bubonic (Black) Plague went away, how hurricanes induce labor, and when the prefrontal cortex is too effective.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:13 Question 1 (How the Black Plague disappeared)

00:16:00 Question 2 (Hurricanes and births)

00:24:04 Question 3 (Overactive PFC’s)

Episode 107 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode includes discussion of how one mushroom causes a very specific hallucination, and the real-life hobbits who once existed.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Tiny People hallucinations)

00:09:42 Question 2 (Hobbits)

Episode 106 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses if there’s any validity to the White/Great Replacement Theory, the details of the glymphatic system, and the global phenomenon of Punch the Monkey.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (White Great Replacement Theory)

00:11:30 Question 2 (Glymphatic system)

00:21:19 Question 3 (Punch the monkey)

Episode 105 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include Rachel’s shock bracelets, the price of atheism, how to discuss banned topics, and the pathological “happiness” of mania. 

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Rachel’s shock bracelets)

00:04:08 Question 2 (Atheism and Taboo Topics)

00:21:20 Question 3 (Pathological happiness in mania)

Episode 104 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses how the Default Mode Network fails in depression, why cultures do cranial deformation, and the evolutionary journey of monogamy.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:13 Question 1 (Default Mode Network in depression)

00:16:20 Question 2 (Cranial Deformation)

00:24:26 Question 3 (Pair-bonding in mammals)

Episode 103 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the woman who is able to smell Parkinson’s, the ratio of brain to body mass, and the role of ritualistic physical harm in religion.

NOTE this episode contains semi-graphic discussion of acts of physical harm.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (The Woman Who Smells Parkinson’s)

00:14:25 Question 2 (Brain body ratios)

00:19:38 Question 3 (Ritualistic harm in religion)

Episode 102 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the status of the reintroduced Galápagos tortoise species, why we get food comas, and the mysterious world of weasel war dances.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Tortoise updates)

00:05:10 Question 2 (Food comas)

00:15:16 Question 3 (Weasel war dances)

Episode 101 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include if and why humans are getting taller overall, what caused us to evolve without tails, and the pros and cons of senescence.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Human Heights)

00:15:22 Question 2 (How we lost our tails)

00:24:40 Question 3 (Senescence)

Episode 100 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode includes how this podcast came to be, SSRI’s versus SNRI’s, gorillas and gibbons in Sapolsky's life, and the allure (and neuroscience) of the occult.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:51 Question 1 (Why This Podcast)

00:03:18 Question 2 (SSRI’s vs SNRI’s)

00:12:11 Question 3 (Gorillas)

00:16:16 Question 4 (Gibbons)

00:20:06 Question 5 (Belief in the occult)

Episode 99 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses whether cavemen actually existed and in what form, why we can feel weather in our limbs, and whether the age of consent should be raised to match brain maturation.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Cavemen)

00:09:37 Question 2 (Feeling the weather)

00:12:55 Question 3 (Age of consent)

Episode 98 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode includes discussion of why blood pressure increase in exercise is a good thing, how loss of smell foreshadows Parkinson’s, and whether neural implants could be used to increase cognitive strength.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Benefits of exercise)

00:09:56 Question 2 (Parkinson’s smell loss)

00:18:31 Question 3 (Neural implants)

Episode 97 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include whether emotional associations with musical patterns are universal, if single genes can ever cause a psychiatric disorder, and how other primates provide medical care to themselves and others.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Music and emotions)

00:09:05 Question 2 (Singular gene causes)

00:18:35 Question 3 (Primate medical care)

Episode 96 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode includes discussion of the impacts of Buddhist practices on the brain, why out-of-Africa humans are less genetically diverse, and the truth about the viral “talking dogs” like Bunny. 

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Buddhism and the brain)

00:08:44 Question 2 (Out-of-Africa genetic diversity)

00:16:33 Question 3 (Talking Dogs)

Episode 95 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the impacts of having an opposite sex twin, Foreign Accent Syndrome, and whether the mid-life crisis is legitimate.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Opposite sex twins)

00:12:42 Question 2 (Foreign Accent Syndrome)

00:25:20 Question 3 (Mid-Life Crises)

Episode 94 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses why microplastics are harmful, whether there’s legitimacy behind astrology, and the disorder trypophobia.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:28 Question 1 (Microplastics)

00:11:28 Question 2 (“Astrology”)

00:22:14 Question 3 (Trypophobia)

Episode 93 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include why we cry for various reasons, the reason for shame, and the truth about testosterone in the context of the MAGA era. 

Access the referenced NYT article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/opinion/testosterone-maga-men-masculinity.html

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00:00 Intro

00:00:18 Question 1 (Why we cry)

00:13:26 Question 2 (Shame)

00:19:03 Question 3 (Testosterone)

Episode 92 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode includes Alice in Wonderland syndrome, the “Red Queen” arms races between humans and COVID, and, in light of a recent tragedy, the mental health of those who work in mental health.

SENSITIVE MATERIAL: this episode contains discussion of su*cide. Please reach out to a professional for support if you need support with this yourself.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:21 Question 1 (Alice in Wonderland Syndrome)

00:08:35 Question 2 (Red Queen arms races)

00:22:49 Question 3 (Psychiatrists’ mental health)

Episode 91 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the link between aspartame and cognitive decline, causal mechanisms of Restless Leg Syndrome, and why naked mole rats don’t get cancer.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:13 Question 1 (Aspartame)

00:14:01 Question 2 (Restless Leg Syndrome)

00:23:23 Question 3 (Naked Mole Rats)

Episode 90 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the relationship between hormones and the brain and how creativity exists without free will.

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00:00 Intro and Updates

00:01:26 Question 1 (Hormones and the Brain Part 1)

00:16:16 Question 2 (Creativity without free will)

00:27:26 Question 3 (Hormones and the Brain Part 2)

Episode 89 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses male-on-female violence in other primates, what primates do at night, and what impact pandemics have on societies long-term. NOTE: this episode discusses issues of r*pe and sexual violence.Social & WebsitesQuestion Submission: https://ha66meqrpqz.typeform.com/sapolskyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/robert.sapolsky00:00 Intro00:00:14 Question 1 (Rejected male violence)00:14:00 Question 2 (Primates at night00:20:07 Question 3 (Effects of pandemics)

Episode 88 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include what humans’ natural diet should be, the history of fertility figures, and what the heck is up with near-death experiences.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:15 Question 1 (Ideal human diet)

00:14:28 Question 2 (Fertility figures)

00:19:52 Question 3 (Near-death experiences)

Episode 87 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the potential relationship between autoimmunity and psychoses, why the heck humans faint, especially at the sight of blood, and what makes some of us perform acts of heroism.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Autoimmunity and psychoses)

00:09:48 Question 2 (Fainting and vasovagal reflex)

00:18:34 Question 3 (What makes us heroes)

Episode 86 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses why some have no desire to reproduce from an evolutionary perspective, what comes before the turtles, and the factors behind Multiple Sclerosis.

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00:00 Intro

00:02:11 Question 1 (Why some don’t reproduce)

00:13:22 Question 2 (Before the turtles)

00:18:33 Question 3 (Multiple Sclerosis)

Episode 85 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the history of ASD, whether there is healthy obesity, and what deja vu is about.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (History of ASD)

00:16:06 Question 2 (Healthy Obesity)

00:23:04 Question 3 (Deja vu)

Episode 84 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This topic discusses why youth are so reckless, how stress impacts tooth decay, and whether mRNA vaccines have any long-term risks.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:41 Question 1 (Reckless youth)

00:11:12 Question 2 (Stress and teeth)

00:18:59 Question 3 (mRNA vaccines)

Episode 83 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the uncanny valley feeling chatbots trigger, why animals have white tummies, and the truth about Tylenol and autism.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:41 Question 1 (Uncanny valley chatbots)

00:12:43 Question 2 (Animals’ white tummies)

00:17:50 Question 3 (Tylenol and autism)

Episode 82 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses updates on the Park Avenue shooter, trauma release exercises (TRE) and their effectiveness, and how extreme weather impacts our behavior.

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00:00 Intro / CTE update

00:01:30 Question 1 (Trauma release exercises)

00:10:54 Question 2 (Extreme weather and emotions)

Episode 81 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode focuses on the late great Jane Goodall and her contributions to primatology and conservation. 

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00:00 Intro

00:24 Part 1: Goodall’s Background

00:05:08 Part 2: Conservation Work

00:07:52 Part 3: Chimp Research

00:15:16 Part 4: Criticisms

00:20:25 Part 5: Controversies

00:26:16 Part 6: Sapolsky and Goodall (Hoarding)

Episode 80 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the psychology of hoarding, and Sapolsky’s all-time favorite experiments.

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00:00 Intro

00:14 Question 1 (Chronic traumatic encephalopathy)

00:17:59 Question 2 (All-time experimental designs)

00:30:16 Question 3 (Hoarding)

Episode 79 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include which other species cheat on their partners, what visceral fat is, and whether other animals lie like humans.

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00:00 Intro

00:15 Question 1 (Cheating species)

00:11:47 Question 2 (Visceral fat)

00:25:59 Question 3 (How animals lie)

Episode 78 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses whether pet parenting makes you attractive to mates, the role of consciousness with no free will, and how a Galápagos tortoise is coming back from extinction.

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00:00 Intro

00:01:34 Question 1 (Pet ownership and attraction)

00:10:22 Question 2 (Consciousness with no free will)

00:17:50 Question 3 (Galápagos Tortoises)

Episode 77 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode focuses on the differences between hunter-gatherer and WEIRD childhoods, how stress and social ranking really interact, and the role metabolic health plays in Alzheimer’s.

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00:00 Intro

00:14 Question 1 (Hunter-Gatherer parenting)

00:15:49 Question 2 (Stress and ranking)

00:28:35 Question 3 (Metabolic health and Alzheimer’s)

Episode 76 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the biology of morning versus night people, whether an internalized locus of control is protective, and if the Hungry Judges study is still valid.

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00:00 Intro

00:14 Question 1 (Morning vs Night People)

00:14:08 Question 2 (Locus of Control)

00:25:25 Question 3 (Hungry Judges Study)

Episode 75 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses what boredom is about in the brain, why rates of homosexuality were high in ancient Greece, and Carl Linnaeus, the father of taxonomy.

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00:00 Intro

00:51 Question 1 (Boredom)

00:14:14 Question 2 (Historical homosexuality)

00:22:13 Question 3 (Carl Linnaeus, father of taxonomy)

Episode 74 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the reason for menopause, why capuchin monkeys are stealing howler monkey babies, and the occurrence of jumping genes in humans.

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00:00 Intro

00:15 Question 1 (Menopause)

00:20:58 Question 2 (Capuchin thieves)

00:29:38 Question 3 (Jumping Genes)

Episode 73 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses how male risk-taking behaviors impact sex ratios, thyroid-related autoimmune diseases, and the TikTok twin telepathy challenge.

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00:00 Intro

00:15 Question 1 (Male risk taking)

00:06:32 Question 2 (Thyroid function and diseases)

00:20:11 Question 3 (TikTok twin telepathy challenge)

Episode 72 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include whether the mother or father is more evolutionarily dominant, why bottom-up emergence matters, and how other primates respond to offspring bullying.

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00:00 Intro

00:23 Question 1 (Importance of mothers vs fathers)

00:12:04 Question 2 (Bottom-up Emergence)

00:23:08 Question 3 (Primate protective parenting)

Episode 71 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses how our IQ’s are increasing, why that one song is stuck in your head, and whether we think or feel our way to decisions.

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00:00 Intro

00:15 Question 1 (IQ’s)

00:09:39 Question 2 (Earworms)

00:16:30 Question 3 (Thinking vs Feeling)

Episode 70 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include placebos, updates on Sapolsky’s lectures, and whether Israel is simply doing tit-for-tat.

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00:00 Intro

00:15 Question 1 (Placebos)

15:03 Question 2 (Updated Lectures

16:01 Question 3 (Israel: tit-for-tat?)

Episode 69 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode focuses on questions about sex, such as penis sizes, clothing as sexual modesty, BDSM and the relationship between arousal and fear, and why humans have face-to-face sex.

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00:00: Intro

00:23: Question 1 (Penis Sizes)

00:15:36: Question 2 (Clothing as sexual modesty)

00:18:14: Question 3 (BDSM)

00:27:20: Question 4 (Missionary Position)

Episode 68 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses gestural expression, whether animals have political systems, and why others’ bodily secretions disgust us.

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00:00 Intro

00:19 Question 1 (Gestural expression)

09:48 Question 2 (Animal politics)

19:34 Question 3 (Bodily secretions)

Episode 67 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include whether night shift rotating is ideal, why we wince, and the hippocampal damage of PTSD.

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00:00: Intro

00:20: Question 1 (Night Shift rotating)

00:15:30: Question 2 (Wincing)

00:21:16: Question 3 (PTSD Hippocampal Atrophy)

Episode 66 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the optimal living environment for humans, how we forgive, and whether suicide attempts can really be predicted and prevented.

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00:00: Intro

00:43: Question 1 (Optimal living environment)

17:13: Question 2 (The science of forgiveness)

30:56: Question 3 (Suicide prediction)

Episode 65 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the 1% difference between human and chimp genomes, how stress hormones can be addictive, and if one can lose weight with a metaphorical diet.

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00:00: Intro

00:43: Question 1 (Genome differences)

00:17:13: Question 2 (Stress hormone addiction)

00:25:28: Question 3 (Metaphorical diets)

Episode 64 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the brain fog experienced during chemotherapy, the effects of Botox on emotion, and how many calories chess players burn.

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00:00: Intro

00:15: Question 1 (Chemo brain fog)

13:53: Question 2 (Botox and emotions)

24:55: Question 3 (Chess and calorie burning)

Episode 63 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the loss of smell in COVID-19, the 1983 Libet study, and the relative standing of current inequality.

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00:00: Intro

00:15: Question 1 (COVID and smell)

10:22: Question 2 (Libet et al.)

28:28: Question 3 (Inequality — better or worse?)

Episode 62 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the function of language brain regions in other apes and monkeys, the “developmental origin of health and disease” and the Dutch Hunger Winter, and how this applies to Palestine.

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00:00: Intro

00:15: Question 1 (Monkey and ape language brains)

13:28: Question 2 (Dutch Hunger Winter)

25:44: Question 3 (Applicability to Palestine)

Episode 61 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses de-extinction, parasocial relationships and Jennifer Aniston Neurons, and whether autism is genetically or environmentally caused (by vaccines).

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00:00: Intro

00:15: Question 1 (De-extinction)

09:06: Question 2 (Parasocial Relationships)

26:11: Question 3 (ASD: Genes or environment)

Episode 60 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include Tourette Syndrome, whether free will and God are mutually exclusive, and the timeline of human sexual maturation.

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00:00: Intro

00:23: Question 1 (Tourette Syndrome)

21:07: Question 2 (Free Will vs God)

25:44: Question 3 (Human Sexual Maturation)

Episode 59 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses wiring of different languages, whether the Professor and Offspring pass the Marshmallow Test, and addictive qualities of non-suicidal self-injury.

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00:00: Intro

00:20: Question 1 (First and second language wiring)

13:40: Question 2 (The Marshmallow Test)

22:04: Question 3 (Non-suicidal self-injury)

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Episode 58 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the condition misophonia, what the “cute aggression” urge stems from, and whether female orgasms have a purpose. 

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00:00: Intro

01:37: Question 1 (Misophonia)

12:09: Question 2 (Cute Aggression)

22:43: Question 3 (Female Orgasms)

Episode 57 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include dopamine’s role in introversion/extroversion, drugs that create real-life zombies, and the religiosity of Alcoholics Anonymous.

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00:00: Intro

00:33: Question 1 (Introversion/Extroversion and dopamine)

11:07: Question 2 (Real-life zombie drugs)

26:04: Question 3 (Religiosity of AA)

Episode 56 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses Ozempic and the potential for addiction treatment, and the historical and evolutionary presence of inbreeding.

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00:00: Intro

00:26: Question 1 (Ozempic and addiction treatment)

19:11: Question 2 (Inbreeding)

Episode 55 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include brain changes during pregnancy, Zimbardo and the Stanford Prison Experiment, and the roots of circumcision.

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0:00: Intro

0:18: Question 1 (Pregnancy Brain changes)

12:40: Question 2 (Stanford Prison Experiment)

26:30: Question 3 (Circumcision)

Episode 54 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the autoimmune disorder Graves’ disease, why anticonvulsants treat bipolar and seizures, and whether other species grieve.

Episode 53 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include neanderthal DNA and autism, why we dream, and the existence of social anxiety.

Episode 52 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include APOE-4 and odds of Alzheimer’s, why we follow fashion trends, and the purpose of adult play.

Episode 51 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the different types of memory, what determinists do about jury duty, and how dogs can detect seizures.

Episode 50 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses why blindness and schizophrenia don’t overlap, ways in which “no free will” can be misused, and examples of trading and bartering in other species.

Episode 49 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include prion diseases and the history of their discovery, as well as criticisms from a philosophical approach of Sapolsky’s no free will assertion.

Episode 48 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the auditory hallucination of schizophrenia, Sapolsky’s brachydactyly fingers, and the benefits of fiction.

Episode 47 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses neurogenesis, reconciliation of science and religion, and the slow immaturity of humans.

Episode 46 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses Winston Churchill’s ass and its relation to wealth, the link between alcohol and cancer, and fox domestication.

Episode 45 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this video include the biology behind religiosity variance, including the relevance of anxiety vs. fear, and insulin resistance in type II diabetes.

Episode 44 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this video include the desire for youthful appearances, the conflation of beauty and goodness, and the cerebellum.

Episode 43 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode focuses on Syria in light of the recent overthrow of the Assad rule.

Episode 42 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics include toxoplasmosis and other parasites, the mechanisms behind inheritance of trauma, and racism in other animals.

Episode 41 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the role of sleep in depression, whether Bipolar Disorder is a sleeping disorder, and the psychosomatic nature of chronic pain.

Episode 40 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the field of sociobiology, whether men are naturally monogamous, and the value of genetic testing.

Episode 39 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the effects of alcohol on the brain, what Freud got right and wrong, and how to reframe the disempowerment of no free will.

Episode 38 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the neurobiology and environmental factors behind Parkinson’s, the link between inequality and free will, and the difference between cis- and trans- brains.

Episode 37 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the phenomenon of pareidolia, the results of the U.S. election, and how to manage psychological stress.

Episode 36 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the dangers of COVID, nerve decussation, and the consequences of “Thymicolymphaticus.”

Episode 35 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the values of meditation, the good in religion, and the impacts of anorexia nervosa.