Robert Sapolsky: The uniqueness of humans

At Stanford University, primatologist Robert Sapolsky offers a fascinating and funny look at human behaviors which the rest of the animal kingdom would consider bizare,he also notices similar behaviours between human and other social animals that make a big theme about who we realy are as humans..
Robert Sapolsky studies the universal human ailment of stress, but his main research subjects are the wild baboons of Kenya.
We all have some measure of stress, and Robert Sapolsky explores its causes as well as its effects on our bodies (his lab was among the first to document the damage that stress can do to our hippocampus). Every year, he goes to Kenya to visit a population of wild baboons, who experience stress very similarly to humans. By measuring hormone levels and stress-related diseases in each primate, he determines their relative stress, looking for patterns in personality and social behavior that might contribute. These exercises have given Sapolsky amazing insight into all primate social behavior, including our own.
"If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble."
Robert Sapolsky