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100			_aSapolsky, Robert M
245			_aBehave : the biology of humans at our best and worst
260			_aLondon: _bVintage, _c2018.
300			_a790p., app., note., ind., 20 cm X 13 cm
500			_aRecommended by: Ishaan Kapur
520			_aSummary:"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 powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy. And so the first category of explanation is the neurobiological one. A behavior occurs--whether an example of humans at our best, worst, or somewhere in between. What went on in a person's brain a second before the behavior happened? Then Sapolsky pulls out to a slightly larger field of vision, a little earlier in time: What sight, sound, or smell caused the nervous system to produce that behavior? And then, what hormones acted hours to days earlier to change how responsive that individual is to the stimuli that triggered the nervous system? By now he has increased our field of vision so that we are thinking about neurobiology and the sensory world of our environment and endocrinology in trying to explain what happened. Sapolsky keeps going: How was that behavior influenced by structural changes in the nervous system over the preceding months, by that person's adolescence, childhood, fetal life, and then back to his or her genetic makeup? Finally, he expands the view to encompass factors larger than one individual. How did culture shape that individual's group, what ecological factors millennia old formed that culture? And on and on, back to evolutionary factors millions of years old.
521			_aContents: 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 Epilogue Appendix 1. Neuroscience 101 Appendix 2. The basics of endocrinology Appendix 3. Protein basics Glossary of abbreviations
650			_xneurophysiology _xneurobiology _xanimal behavior _xlife sciences _xcriminology _xneuroscience
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