Biology of Human Behavior: Lecture # 6. Behavioral Genetics, I [Robert Sapolsky, 2010. Stanford]

    We present to you the sixth lecture of the course “Biology of Human Behavior” by Stanford University professor Robert Sapolsky.



    This is the first part of a section on ambiguous attempts to link behavior with genetics. The lecture highlights the classical approaches to behavior genetics, their shortcomings, the influence of environmental factors, the non-genetic inheritance of certain traits, and epigenetics.



    List of translated lectures *:

    1st lecture : Introductory lecture on the main directions of the course and why it is dangerous to think in categories.
    Lecture 2 : The 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.
    4th lecture: Molecular Genetics, I. It talks about the relationship between 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.

    * There are 25 lectures in total, we will gradually translate everything.
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