![]() ![]() Sapolsky has produced, in addition to numerous scientific papers, books for broader audiences, including A Primate’s Memoir: A Neuroscientist’s Unconventional Life Among the Baboons, Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: Stress Disease and Coping, and The Trouble with Testosterone. He has been called "one of the best scientist-writers of our time" by Oliver Sacks. These exercises have given Sapolsky amazing insight into all primate social behavior, including our own. His most recent book Behave was a New York Times bestseller and named a best book of the year by The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. ![]() By measuring hormone levels and stress-related diseases in each primate, he determines their relative stress, looking for patterns in personality and social behavior that might contribute. Sapolsky is the author of several works of nonfiction, including A Primate’s Memoir, The Trouble with Testosterone, and Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers. In his research, he follows a population of wild baboons in Kenya, who experience stress very similarly to the way humans do. ![]() We all have some measure of stress, and Robert Sapolsky explores its causes as well as its effects on our bodies (his lab was among the first to document the damage that stress can do to our hippocampus). ![]()
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