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This episode explores the amygdala's role in processing identities in biracial individuals and discusses the phenomenon of eye floaters.

Episode 120 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include how the amygdala processes “us” and “them” in biracial individuals, as well as in other cases of intersectional identities, and what the mysterious eye floaters we all see really are. Social & Websites Question Submission: https://ha66meqrpqz.typeform.com/sapolsky Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robert.sapolsky 00:00 Intro 00:00:14 Question 1 (Biracial individuals and amygdala categorization) 00:28:32 Question 2 (Eye floaters)

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