Zan Boag: Clearly, given your research and writing, we’re going to be speaking about dopamine, but I’d like to look at it through the lens of novelty and the influence of novelty in our lives – why we’re drawn to it and what sort of effect this has on the decisions we make throughout our lives. But first I wanted to find out a little bit about dopamine in humans. Are we the only animals who have dopamine? And why does it exist in our brains at all?
Daniel Lieberman: We are not the onl...
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