One of the best courses we've added into our Free Courses Collection just got better! Fifteen years after Stanford University Professor Robert Sapolsky added his course on "Human Behavioral Biology" to YouTube, he has recently added a new edition of this popular course to YouTube with updated findings in his field. The new recordings of the course also feature better audio and video, and detailed slides edited within each lecture to help you learn.
Sapolsky is an award-winning professor, superstar lecturer, and author of numerous books including Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: A Guide To Stress, Stress Related Diseases, and Coping. He also hosted the popular documentary featured on our site called Stress: Portrait of a Killer
His course on "Human Behavioral Biology" is so good that The Great Courses invited him to teach the course for their customers in an audio & video course entitled Biology and Human Behavior: The Neurological Origins of Individuality. We've purchased and listened to that course in its entirety and it's incredible! Now the course is being offered for free on video from Stanford University and it seems like basically the same course except way more! The Great Courses course runs 12 Hrs. and the new free video edition at Stanford runs 38 Hrs.
The course comprehensively covers human behavior from the perspective of biology from an in-depth look at the nervous system, limbic system, and hormones to the latest discoveries in neuroscience, genetics, and human evolution. Sapolsky attempts to give you a well rounded picture of the biology of human behavior today. And after that, he then takes a look at certain human behaviors which can be examined from this perspective including lectures on human sexual behavior, aggression, depression, schizophrenia, and what makes up for the individual differences in humans. This 32-lecture course is available on video on YouTube. Here are the individual lecture titles:
1. Human Behavioral Biology: Introduction
2. Evolution of Behavior 1
3. Evolution of Behavior 2
4. Evolution of Behavior 3
5. Molecular Behavior Genetics 1
6. Molecular Behavior Genetics 2
7. Behavioral Genetics 1
8. Behavioral Genetics 2
9. Ethology 1
10. Ethology 2
11. Limbic System 1
12. Limbic System 2
13. Limbic System 3
14. Limbic System 4
15. Advanced Topics in Neuroendocrinology 1
16. Advanced Topics in Neuroendocrinology 2
17. Emergence 1
18. Emergence 2
19. Sexuality 1
20. Sexuality 2
21. Sexuality 3
22. Sexuality 4
23. Violence and its Antidotes 1
24. Violence and its Antidotes 2
25. Violence and its Antidotes 3
26. Violence and its Antidotes 4
27. Violence and its Antidotes 5
28. Violence and its Antidotes 6
29. Depression
30. Schizophrenia
31. Religious Belief
32. Individual Differences