Biology of Human Behavior: Lecture # 7. Behavioral Genetics, II [Robert Sapolsky, 2010. Stanford]
We present to you the seventh lecture of the course “ Biology of Human Behavior ” by Robert Sapolsky on the genetics of behavior.
The lecture highlights the main difficulties associated with the isolation of individual genes, with an understanding of variability and heritability. And also why genes and the environment are inextricably linked, although the role of the latter is often underestimated.
This is the second part of the Behavioral Genetics section, the first part can be found here , and the entire list of lectures already translated to date is under the cut.
List of already translated lectures:
1st lecture : Introductory lecture on the main directions of the course and why it is dangerous to think in categories.
2nd lecture: Evolution of behavior, I. In this lecture, the professor explains the evolution of behavior using illustrative examples, including the widely known “prisoner's dilemma”.
Lecture 3 : Evolution of Behavior, II. Continued explanation of the evolution of behavior.
Lecture 4 : Molecular Genetics, I. It talks about the relationship of protein synthesis and point mutations with microevolutionary changes, and discusses conflicting theories of gradualism and intermittent equilibrium, as well as the phenomenon of epigenetics.
Lecture 5 : Molecular Genetics, II. It talks about various mutations in the components of natural selection at the molecular level, and theories of gradualism and intermittent equilibrium are reduced to a common development model.
6th lecture: Behavioral Genetics, I. The lecture highlights the classical approaches to behavioral genetics, their shortcomings, the influence of environmental factors, the non-genetic inheritance of certain traits, and epigenetics.
7th lecture : Genetics of behavior, II. The lecture highlights the main difficulties associated with isolating individual genes, understanding variability and heritability, and also explains why genes and the environment are inextricably linked, although the role of the latter is often underestimated.
There are 25 lectures in total, gradually we will translate them all.
