15. Human Sexual Behavior I

May 5, 2010) Robert Sapolsky explores behavioral patterns of human reproduction. He focuses on proximal and distal motivations, orgasm and fertility facilitation, non-reproductive sex, hormonal and cerebral sexual functions, and the differences and similarities between humans and animals in various physiological realms.

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Category:

Education

Tags:

• Science
• Interdisciplinary
• Bioengineering
• Genetic
• Sociobiology
• Darwin
• Physiology
• Evolution
• Neurobiology
• Sexual
• Species
• Natural Selection
• Learning
• Organism
• Environment
• Heritability
• Reproduce
• Reproduction
• Survive
• Gene
• Variability
• Mutatio

[zoidbetag]

My god, that beard is...amazing

[rexadelic]

This guy makes me want to go to Stanford

[enlightedjedi]

@Licensetokill29

roughly you are right

[Licensetokill29]

@fb101786 Well, I just agreed in 2012 AD.

[fb101786]

@Licensetokill29 im sure they said that in 2012 bc

[Licensetokill29]

I am lucky to be born in this generation when you've all the knowledge of the world at your fingertips. All barriers removed.

[ZhoZhaal]

"A far larger greater percentage of you want to learn about depression than about sexual behaviour, so there you have it with the Stanford experience" :D

[berruecaa]

Really support this kind of iniciative, open high quality knowledge for everyone. Hope to see more stuff like this eventually.

[JimBCameron]

@Humaan2012 er, you might want to watch it again & listen properly, he's making the point that the part of the brain related to finding females attractive is smaller in guys attracted to guys. That parts size is correlated in part to gender & sexuality, that it's noticeably different if your sexual orientation is different is hardly a revelation really is it?

[FrosDOwnz]

@Humaan2012 Brain size has little to do with intellectual capacity. Correlation does not imply causation.

[Humaan2012]

wow...i always knew gay people had smaller brain now i can proove it with what this man said, he obviously knows what hes talking about. the face my teacher is gonna make tomorrow !!!!!



[SmallSandInTheSea]

the lecture is great, the way the professor delivers it is equally impressive and engaging. I don't have the chance to go to Standford but here I have one great chance to learn from great professors. I thought it was just a coincidence that many different species have the same kind of sexual behavior, but now it makes biological sense to me.