Click above to listen to part 3 of Skeptic Check: Rational Lampoon, featuring Robert Sapolsky, professor of neuroscience at Stanford University and author of Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, explaining how the human brain finds benefit in categorizing others as belonging to certain groups.
Skeptic Check: Rational Lampoon
Part 1: Laurance Doyle / Ape Aping
Part 2: Steve Sloman / Collective “Knowledge”
Part 3: Robert Sapolsky / Us vs. Them
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