Recognizing Relatives
Show: Lecture Collection | Human Behavioral Biology --> Season: 1 - 2010 Lectures
AirDate: 4/16/2010
Runtime: 79
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Overview: Robert Sapolsky discusses various methods of innate recognition of relatives between animals and humans through protein signatures, olfactory cellular mechanisms, cognitive, and sensory processes. He explores the importance of relatedness in animal mating/ovulation cycles and other phenomena that show how organisms identify each other.