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Robert M. Sapolsky is a renowned neuroendocrinologist known for his research on stress, neurobiology, and evolutionary psychology. His work has revealed how stress affects the brain and body, and how these effects relate to human behavior and health.

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“Often we’re more about the anticipation and pursuit of pleasure than about the experience of it.”

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Book:Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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“When humans invented socioeconomic status, they invented a way to subordinate like nothing hierarchical primates had ever seen before.”

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Book:Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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“Anyone who says that our worst behaviors are inevitable knows too little about primates, including us.”

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Book:Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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“Our worst behaviors, ones we condemn and punish, are the products of our biology. But don’t forget that the same applies to our best behaviors.”

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Book:Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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“Be dubious about someone who suggests that other types of people are like little crawly, infectious things.”

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Book:Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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“We’re the only species that institutionalizes reconciliation and that grapples with –truth-, -apology-, -forgiveness-, -reparations-, -amnesty-, and –forgetting-.”

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Book:Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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“We are constantly being shaped by seemingly irrelevant forces we don’t know a thing about.”

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Book:Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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“Many of our best moments of morality and compassion have roots far deeper and older than being mere products of human civilization.”

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Book:Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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“Adolescence shows us that the most interesting part of the brain evolved to be shaped minimally by genes and maximally by experience; that’s how we learn –context, context, context.”

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Book:Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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“Rationality may be key to establishing peace, but the irrational importance of sacred values is key to establishing lasting peace.”

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Book:Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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“Be careful when our enemies are made to remind us of maggots and cancer and shit. But also beware when it is our empathic intuitions, rather than our hateful ones, that are manipulated by those who use us for their own goals.”

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Book:Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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“Genes are important for understanding our behavior. Incredibly important - after all, they code for every protein pertinent to brain function, endocrinology, etc.”

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“The regulation of genes is often more interesting than the genes themselves, and it's the environment that regulates genes.”

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“Almost always, genes are about potentials and vulnerabilities rather than about determinism.”

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“Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.”

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Book:Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping - Now Revised and Updated

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