{"id":107912,"date":"2020-05-30T21:42:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T04:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/robert-sapolsky-were-uniquely-violent-and-compassionate"},"modified":"2020-05-30T21:42:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T04:42:18","slug":"robert-sapolsky-were-uniquely-violent-and-compassionate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/robert-sapolsky-were-uniquely-violent-and-compassionate","title":{"rendered":"Robert Sapolsky: We\u2019re uniquely violent and compassionate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robert-sapolsky-were-uniquely-violent-and-compassionate.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Humans are on the one hand capable of mass genocide, and on the other hand, great self-sacrifice. Why are we capable of such extremes? We talked about this with Robert Sapolsky, professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University and recipient of a MacArthur Foundation genius grant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SophieCo_RT\">@SophieCo_RT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong>Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sophieco.visionaries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sophieco.visionaries<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans are on the one hand capable of mass genocide, and on the other hand, great self-sacrifice. Why are we capable of such extremes? We talked about this with Robert Sapolsky, professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University and recipient of a MacArthur Foundation genius grant. Follow @SophieCo_RT Instagram Sophieco.visionaries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}