Robert Sapolsky | Father-Offspring Interviews
Hosted by Robert Sapolsky · Robert Sapolsky
5.0from 422 ratings
- 132
- Episodes
- 33
- Transcribed
- 422
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About Robert Sapolsky | Father-Offspring Interviews
Dr. Robert Sapolsky and his Offspring answer your questions, with topics ranging from his books to his time doing field work in Kenya, current research to current events, and lots more.
- Publisher
- Robert Sapolsky
- Category
- science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 28 Nov 2024
- Latest episode
- 15 Oct 2026
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33 of 132 episodes have a transcript.
15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Sperm Racing; Hemispherectomies | Robert Sapolsky Father-Offspring Interviews
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Sperm Racing; Hemispherectomies | Robert Sapolsky Father-Offspring Interviews
Published 15 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Another thing that's lateralized is language. Dogma used to be, in 90% of people, all of language comprehension and production was in the left hemisphere. Turns out the right hemisphere does more subtle stuff having to do with language, but in 90% of people, the bulk of it is going on in the left hemisphere. So that's lateralized. Whoa, why did that evolve to be lateralized? Why not split the main language functions between the two hemispheres? Because the brain embryologically has to spend a fortune then on these long cables linking these two outposts. And it just evolved for efficiency to cluster some functions very locally. […]
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