Behave : the biology of humans at our best and worst /

Why do we do what we do? 'Behave' achieves what no other text has previously attempted: it brings together a whole host of sciences - the study of our brains, genes and hormones, the investigations of psychology, anthropology and evolutionary history - and by gathering them together offers...

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Hlavní autor: Sapolsky, Robert M. (Autor)
Médium: Kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: London : Vintage, 2018.
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  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Notes