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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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Author(s): Robert Sapolsky
Publisher: Penguin Press
Year: 2017

Language: English
Commentary: More best quality

Also by Robert M. Sapolsky
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
INTRODUCTION
One: THE BEHAVIOR
Two: ONE SECOND BEFORE
Three: SECONDS TO MINUTES BEFORE
Four: HOURS TO DAYS BEFORE
Five: DAYS TO MONTHS BEFORE
Six: ADOLESCENCE; OR, DUDE, WHERE’S MY FRONTAL CORTEX?
Seven: BACK TO THE CRIB, BACK TO THE WOMB
Eight: BACK TO WHEN YOU WERE JUST A FERTILIZED EGG
Nine: CENTURIES TO MILLENNIA BEFORE
Ten: THE EVOLUTION OF BEHAVIOR
Eleven: US VERSUS THEM
Twelve: HIERARCHY, OBEDIENCE, AND RESISTANCE
Thirteen: MORALITY AND DOING THE RIGHT THING, ONCE YOU’VE FIGURED OUT WHAT THAT IS
Fourteen: FEELING SOMEONE’S PAIN, UNDERSTANDING SOMEONE’S PAIN, ALLEVIATING SOMEONE’S PAIN
Fifteen: METAPHORS WE KILL BY
Sixteen: BIOLOGY, THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, AND (OH, WHY NOT?) FREE WILL
Seventeen: WAR AND PEACE
EPILOGUE
Acknowledgments
Appendix 1: Neuroscience 101
Appendix 2: The Basics of Endocrinology
Appendix 3: Protein Basics
Glossary of Abbreviations
Abbreviations in the Notes
Notes
Illustration Credits
Index
About the Author