silencer47

Dear Dr Sapolsky,

I´ve been a great fan of your work after since watching your course on behavioural evolution, I especially enjoyed your stories about the baboons you studied. You once talked about a radical change in the behaviour of these baboons after the more agressive males died from tainted food, with a more gentle social dynamic arising as a result. Would such a change be ´permanent´ ? Would this either permanently change the culture in the group or would this eventually return to the status quo? What potential lessons could we draw from this case concerning human social and political structure? Thank you in advance for being here!

Im currious, what is the local populations opinion off the taliban and the goverment troops they fight.

The media has been buzzing about high level pakistani military officers working with the taliban. In your experience is this a credible problem?