Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, (Paperback)

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"If you had to boil this book down to a single phrase, it would be “It's complicated.” Nothing seems to cause anything; instead everything just modulates something else." (674) An exhaustive study of human behavior by a polymathic neuroscientist who studies baboons and teaches at Stanford, this m...

from Darcia

So... wow. Where to begin? I was fascinated from beginning to end. Behave is one of the few books I'll probably read over at least once. Maybe twice. This book is absolutely not pop-science. It's not a book you'll breeze through, which is probably evident by the page count. This is an in-depth ex...

from PhoenixIndy

This book is more than psychology, more than sociology, and there is much to learn about why we are what and who we are, and how we got that way. The author gives us an idea that many of our attitudes and feelings began in our DNA in the stone age. Very interesting and hard to put down.

from jen.e.moore

This book is long, hard going, but it's well worth it - it's one of the only books on neuroscience I've ever read where the author doesn't treat the discovery of which gene secretes which neurochemical to create which response as though that's a meaningful answer to any question. Rather, Sapolsky...

from rivkat

The conceit of the book is to look at the biological influences on behavior from distant (evolutionary, parental environment, prenatal environment, etc.) to microscopically close (how do neurons fire). It's really too big to be grasped in one book, but I liked Sapolsky's meticulous recounting of ...