Robert Sapolsky

hedonism is “the pursuit of pleasure,” anhedonia is “the inability to feel pleasure”

being traumatized by ninth-grade

It can be far more than a mere academic matter when a scientist thinks that human behavior can be entirely explained from only one perspective.

Crucially, the brain region most involved in feeling afraid and anxious is most involved in generating aggression.

“The opposite of love is not hate; its opposite is indifference.”

The biologies of strong love and strong hate are similar in many ways

“people killing each other over who has the better imaginary friend,”

“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.”

liberalization of abortion laws and the demographics of the crime drop showed that when abortions become readily available in an area, rates of crime by young adults decline about twenty years later.

What majorly predicts a life of crime?