Dr. Robert Sapolsky is a professor of biology, and professor of neurology and neurological sciences at Stanford University. He is also a research associate at the Institute of Primate Research operated by the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi, where he spends summers in Kenya studying a population of wild baboons in order to identify the sources of stress in their environment, and the relationship between personality and patterns of stress-related disease in these animals. He has also written several acclaimed books, some of which include Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, and most recently, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will.
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