Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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ANew York TimesBestseller.

“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

"A quirky, opinionated and magisterial synthesis of psychology and neurobiology...Darwin would have been thrilled.” - Richard Wrangham,The New York Times Book Review

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,Behaveis a towering achievement, powerfully humanizing, and downright heroic in its own right.

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Роберт Сапольски
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English

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09/22/2022

Вражаючий синтез науки про людську поведінку!

Книга "Поводься" Роберта Сапольського — це справжній бестселер, який відкриває перед читачем безмежний світ людської поведінки, досліджуючи її з різних наукових перспектив. Автор майстерно поєднує нейробіологію, психологію та еволюційну біологію, щоб пояснити, чому ми робимо те, що робимо, і які фактори впливають на наші вчинки. Його стиль написання легкий та зрозумілий, що робить складні наукові концепції доступними для широкої аудиторії. Я особливо вражений тим, як Сапольський розглядає не лише індивідуальні реакції, але й культурні та еволюційні аспекти, які формують наше сприйняття світу. Книга спонукає до глибоких роздумів про мораль, свободу волі та племінність, і залишає читача з безліччю питань, на які варто знайти відповіді. Це не просто наукова праця, а справжній філософський трактат, який закликає нас зрозуміти себе і наше місце у світі. Рекомендую всім, хто цікавиться психологією, соціологією та наукою про людину!

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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

ANew York TimesBestseller.

“It’s no exaggeration to say that Behave is one of the best nonfiction books I’ve ever read.” — David P. Barash,The Wall...

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