Behave : the biology of humans at our best and worst
- Responsibility
- Robert M. Sapolsky
- Digital
- text file
- Publication
- New York, NY : Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018
- Copyright notice
- ©2017
- Physical description
- 1 online resource : illustrations
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Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Sapolsky, Robert M. author.
- Contributor
- EBSCOhost.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 721-773) and index
- Contents
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- 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
Subjects
- Subjects
- Neurophysiology
- Neurobiology.
- Animal behavior.
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2018
- Copyright date
- 2017
- Reproduction
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web
- ISBN
- 9780735222786 electronic book
- 0735222789 electronic book
- 9781594205071 hardcover
- 1594205078 hardcover
