Professor Robert Sapolsky talks on The Uniqueness of Humans

Professor Sapolsky is a leading neuroscientist and the author of "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: Organisational Rank and Stress." and "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: An Updated Guide to Stress, Stress- Related Diseases and Coping" A fascinating and very readable book. He is a brilliant speaker. He is renowned for his studies on stress and human behaviour and his research with African Baboons and observation of fight or flight responses in zebras. He researches issues of stress and neuron degeneration and was one of the first to document the link between prolonged stress and damage to the neurons in the hippocampus and links between stress and physical and mental disease from a neuroscience and evolutionary perspective.

Described by the New York Times as 'one of the finest natural history writers around' and by Oliver Sacks as ' one of the best science writers of our time'