1.) the absorption of extreme energy sources (UV light, radiation) 2.) endogenous reactions when oxygen is reduced to water created by systems involved in electron and oxygen transport (redox reactions) 3.) enzymatic metabolism of exogenous chemicals or drugs.
Back to Episode. John Horgan examines how Americans seem to have a completely different attitude toward war than we did thirty years ago. Strangely, everyone seems to know the answer. Robert Sapolsky brings us farther afield - to eastern Africa, where a population of baboons defies his expectations of violent behavior.
For other uses, see Baboon (disambiguation). Baboons are African and Arabian Old World monkeys belonging to the genus Papio, part of the subfamily Cercopithecinae. The five species are some of the largest non-hominoid members of the primate order; only the mandrill and the drill are larger.