This book is about what underlies all of our actions - from the most rational to the craziest, what influences our social behavior and the decisions we make for our own benefit and harm, on the formation of our habits and memories. An interesting and educational study of the functioning of the brain, undertaken by the American neuroscientist Peter Whybrow, will change your ideas about human life in the modern world. The author talks about the many revolutionary discoveries made by modern science about the brain, coming close to unraveling the secrets of the further development of our civilization - one of the most prosperous in the history of mankind and one of the deadliest for the world in which we live.