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134 | Robert Sapolsky on Why We Behave the Way We Do

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Are You Growing Up in a Neighborhood?

How we treat kids has a very lasting effect on who they grow up to be. If you were a second trimester fetus during the Dutch hunger winter, you have a greatly increased risk of suffering from schizophrenia and adulthood. There's stuff going on even before we're born that presumably we can't be blamed for,. But that goes into our genetics and the rest of our heritage that also affects how we behave.

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