Behave the biology of humans at our best and worst
"Why do we do the things we do? Over a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a...
| Main Author: | Sapolsky, Robert M. (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- The behavior
- One second before
- Seconds to minutes before
- Hours to days before
- Days to months before
- Adolescence: or, Dude, where's my frontal cortex?
- Back to the crib, back to the womb
- Back to when you were just a fertilized egg
- Centuries to millennia before
- The evolution of behavior
- Us versus them
- Hierarchy, obedience, and resistance
- Morality and doing the right thing, once you've figured out what that is
- Feeling someone's pain, understanding someone's pain, alleviating someone's pain
- Metaphors we kill by
- Biology, the criminal justice system, and (oh, why not?) free will
- War and peace.