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    Behave : the biology of humans at our best and worst / Robert M. Sapolsky.
    by Sapolsky, Robert M., author.
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    New York, New York : Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2017.
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  • Neurophysiology.
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  • Neurobiology.
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  • Animal behavior.
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    9781594205071 (hardcover) :
    1594205078 (hardcover)
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    790 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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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.
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    Why do we do the things we do? attempts to answer that question, looking at it from every angle. He hops back in time, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy. The result is a dazzling tour of the science of human, 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.
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