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

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



This is the first part of the section devoted to ambiguous attempts to link behavior with genetics. The lecture highlights the classic approaches to the genetics of behavior, their shortcomings, the influence of environmental factors, the non-genetic heritability of certain features and epigenetics.
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List of translated lectures *:

Lecture 1 : Introductory lecture on the main directions of the course and why it is dangerous to think in categories.
Lecture 2 : Evolution of behavior, I. In this lecture, the professor explains the evolution of behavior, using illustrative examples, including the well-known “prisoner's dilemma”.
Lecture 3 : Behavior Evolution, II. Continued explanation of the evolution of behavior.
Lecture 4 : Molecular genetics, I. It describes the connection of protein synthesis and point mutations with microevolutionary changes, and discusses the theories of gradualism and intermittent equilibrium with each other, as well as the phenomenon of epigenetics.
Lecture 5 : Molecular Genetics, II. It describes the different mutations in the components of natural selection at the molecular level, and the theories of gradualism and intermittent equilibrium are reduced to a general model of development.

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