Key Points
To quote Sapolsky: [Behaviour] is indeed a mess, a subject involving brain chemistry, hormones, sensory cues, prenatal environment, early experience, genes, both biological and cultural evolution, and ecological pressures, among other things."..
The core idea of Sapolskys book is that human behaviour is created by biology, over which one has no control, interacting with an environment over which one has no control either..
The pin-drop silence in response to arguments put forth by books like Ramachandrans and Sapolskys shows newly created information is not easily absorbed..
As India prepares to change its orbit and start moving towards world leadership, while it is important to create knowledge and share new learnings with citizens, it is equally or perhaps more important to increase peoples ability to absorb that new information..
This feeling would make us far more receptive to paradigm-shifting ideas of the kind propounded by contrarian thinkers like Copernicus, Darwin and others..
