Behave The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst |
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Author:
| Sapolsky, Robert M. |
ISBN: | 978-1-59420-507-1 |
Publication Date: | May 2017 |
Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group
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Imprint: | Penguin Press |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $36.00 |
Book Description:
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New York Times bestseller * Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * One of the Washington Post's 10 Best Books of the Year "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 "Immensely...
More Description New York Times bestseller * Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * One of the Washington Post's 10 Best Books of the Year
"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
"Immensely readable, often hilarious...Hands-down one of the best books I've read in years. I loved it." --Dina Temple-Raston, The Washington Post
From the bestselling author of A Primate's Memoir and the forthcoming Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will comes a landmark, genre-defining examination of human behavior and an answer to the question: Why do we do the things we do?
Behave is one of the most dazzling tours d'horizon of the science of human behavior ever attempted. Moving across a range of disciplines, Sapolsky--a neuroscientist and primatologist--uncovers the hidden story of our actions. Undertaking some of our thorniest questions relating to tribalism and xenophobia, hierarchy and competition, and war and peace, Behave is a towering achievement--a majestic synthesis of cutting-edge research and a heroic exploration of why we ultimately do the things we do . . . for good and for ill.