Behave the biology of humans at our best and worst

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The New York Times Bestseller It's no exaggeration to say that Behave is one of the best nonfiction books I've ever read. -David P. Barash, The Wall Street Journal It has my vote for science book of the year. -Parul Sehgal, The New York Times Hands-down one of the best books I've read in years. I loved it. -Dina Temple-Raston, The Washington Post Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal From the celebrated neurobiologist and primatologist, a landmark, genre-defining examination of human behavior, both good and bad, and an answer to the question: Why do we do the things we do? 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. The result is one of the most dazzling tours d'horizon of the science of human behavior ever attempted, a majestic synthesis that harvests cutting-edge research across a range of disciplines to provide a subtle and nuanced perspective on why we ultimately do the things we do...for good and for ill. Sapolsky builds on this understanding to wrestle with some of our deepest and thorniest questions relating to tribalism and xenophobia, hierarchy and competition, morality and free will, and war and peace. Wise, humane, often very funny, Behave is a towering achievement, powerfully humanizing, and downright heroic in its own right.

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Behave

Rating: 3.8 / 5 | Prijs: € 11.99

new york times bestseller why do human beings behave as they do awe inspiring you will learn more about human nature than in any other book i can think of henry marsh bestselling author of do no harm we are capable of savage acts of violence but also spectacular feats of kindness is one Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

Behave

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A professor of biology and neurology at stanford reveals what makes humans do the things they do delving into environmental stimuli things that trigger the nervous system hormonal responses and how they work in conjunction with evolutionary and cultural factors Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

Behave

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Behave is een baanbrekend boek over het menselijke gedrag dat eindelijk een antwoord biedt op de eeuwenoude vraag waarom doen we de dingen die we doen het boek is een van de meest duizelingwekkende onderzoeken naar menselijk gedrag dat ooit werd geschreven op basis van verschillende wetenschapsd Op voorraad. Voor 23:00 uur besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 mei 2018

Aantal pagina's: 800

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Robert M. Sapolsky

Hoofduitgeverij: Penguin Usa

Editie: 1

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 140 mm

Product hoogte: 43 mm

Product lengte: 215 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 60 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 21 mm

Verpakking lengte: 339 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 355 g

EAN: 9780143110910

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