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• Culture in animals: the case of a non-human primate culture of low aggression and high affiliation. 

  Introduction Philosophers often consider what it is that makes us human. For biologists considering the same, the answer is often framed in...

  Social Forces, 09/01/06 by Sapolsky, Robert M. · More from publication

• Stress and the City 

  As part of my research, I study the physiology of wild baboons in the Serengeti, which is where I am now. I share my camp with a guy named...

  Natural History, 06/01/06 by Robert M. Sapolsky · More from publication

• Of mice, men, and genes: the best-laid plans o' DNA gang aft agley 

  Don't you love urban legends, those outrageous stories everyone believes? There are academicians who study urban legends for a living; they...

  Natural History, 05/01/04 by Robert M. Sapolsky · More from publication

• The pleasure of "maybe": both tease and terrorist exert control by fostering uncertainty in their targets 

  Then there was the summer Jonathan spent unsuccessfully wooing Rebecca. Both were savanna baboons living in the Serengeti Plains in East Africa,...

  Natural History, 09/01/03 by Robert M. Sapolsky · More from publication

• Cheaters and chumps: game theorists offer a surprising insight into the evolution of fair play 

  Since well before the time of Dostoyevsky, people have thought about crime, punishment, and their interconnections. Why punish society's...

  Natural History, 06/01/02 by Robert M. Sapolsky · More from publication

• What do females want? Does a male's long tail or flashy coloration advertise his good genes? New research challenges the old answers 

  To readers of Cosmo and Animal Behaviour, it must be quite obvious that females the world over are concerned about finding the right mate. For...

  Natural History, 12/01/01 by Robert M. Sapolsky · More from publication

• The Alzheimer's Lottery 

  The ongoing research being conducted on Alzheimer disease is noted, along with some breakthrough findings which may aide in protecting the human...

  Natural History, 09/01/99 by Robert M. Sapolsky · More from publication

• The scientist's urge for integers. (adapted from The Sciences, March/April 1994) 

  Adapted from "Measures of Life," by Robert M. Sapolsky, in the March/April issue of The Sciences, published by the New York Academy of Sciences....

  Harper's Magazine, 07/01/94 by Sapolsky, Robert M. · More from publication