21. Chaos and Reductionism

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Teaches chaos theory and the limits of reductionism in biology. Robert Sapolsky's Stanford course is famous for linking evolution, genetics, neuroscience and endocrinology into one account of behaviour; recorded in 2010, so a few research details are dated but the framework is evergreen.

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Stanford Human Behavioral Biology, lecture 21: Chaos theory and the limits of reductionism in biology.

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