Accessibility links

Hardwired : TED Radio Hour How much of who we are is biology? How much is learned? And how much can we change? This hour, TED speakers on how genes and experience collaborate — and compete — to make us who we are.

TED Radio HourTED Radio Hour

A journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, and new ways to think and create. Based on riveting TEDTalks from the world's most remarkable minds.
The TED Radio Hour: Hardwired
Enlarge this image

The TED Radio Hour: Hardwired iStock/Getty hide caption

toggle caption
iStock/Getty
The TED Radio Hour: Hardwired

The TED Radio Hour: Hardwired

iStock/Getty

Hardwired

How much of who we are is biology? How much is learned? And how much can we change? This hour, TED speakers on how genes and experience collaborate — and compete — to make us who we are.

Robert Sapolsky: How Much Agency Do We Have Over Our Behavior?

We're all a confusing mixture of an array of impulses...our nature is to be context dependent on our behavior. - Robert Sapolsky TED hide caption

toggle caption
TED

TED Radio Hour

Robert Sapolsky: How Much Agency Do We Have Over Our Behavior?

by NPR/TED Staff

Robert Sapolsky: How Much Agency Do We Have Over Our Behavior?

Listen · 12:27
  • Download
  • <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/545092668/545903706" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
  • Transcript
Listen · 1:01
♫
Lifespan - Instrumental Vaults
Listen · 1:01
♫
I Am The Changer Cotton Jones
Buy

Buy Featured Music

Song
I Am The Changer
Album
Paranoid Cocoon
Artist
Cotton Jones

Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How?

Listen · 0:11
♫
Why Can't You Behave? Ella Fitzgerald

TED Radio HourTED Radio Hour

A journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, and new ways to think and create. Based on riveting TEDTalks from the world's most remarkable minds.
Browse the program archive or