Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Seller's Note: This book was received annotated (pen writing and highlighting) in a few parts in the first 150 pages of the book. An image of an annotated page is included for reference. The book is otherwise in like-new condition, but please take this into consideration when deciding to purchase. More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy.And so the first category of explanation is the neurobiological one. A behavior occurs--whether an example of humans at our best, worst, or somewhere in between. What went