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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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Charlene
Without question, this is Sapolsky's best work yet. I have too many pages of notes to synthesize a review that could possibly do this book justice. Review to come when I have more time to write. Meanwhile, put this book at the top of your list! A+ ...more
ktsn
Jul 20, 2019 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: cognition
This is a book claimed to explain the biology of behavior, in particular those related to violence. The first half is more like a biology class, organized in an ingenious way: various factors that may influence behaviors are discussed based on the timescales they take effects. So we have neurological signals (seconds), hormones (hours to days), environments (years), culture (centuries to millennia), and the evolutionary history of the whole species (millions of years). The second half is more li ...more
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