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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London :
Vintage,
2018.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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