The Resource Behave : the biology of humans at our best and worst, Robert M. Sapolsky
Behave : the biology of humans at our best and worst, Robert M. Sapolsky
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- Summary
- Why do we do the things we do? Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky attempts to answer that question as fully as possible, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky starts by examining 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. 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 on in a person's brain a second before the behavior happened? Then Sapolsky pulls out to a slightly larger field of vision, a little earlier in time: What sight, sound, or smell caused the nervous system to produce that behavior? And then, what hormones acted hours to days earlier to change how responsive that individual is to the stimuli that triggered the nervous system? By now he has increased our field of vision so that we are thinking about neurobiology and the sensory world of our environment and endocrinology in trying to explain what happened. Sapolsky keeps going: How was that behavior influenced by structural changes in the nervous system over the preceding months, by that person's adolescence, childhood, fetal life, and then back to his or her genetic makeup? Finally, he expands the view to encompass factors larger than one individual. How did culture shape that individual's group, what ecological factors millennia old formed that culture? And on and on, back to evolutionary factors millions of years old
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 790 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction
- 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
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix 1: Neuroscience 101
- Appendix 2: The basics of endocrinology
- Appendix 3: Protein basics
- Isbn
- 9781594205071
- Label
- Behave : the biology of humans at our best and worst
- Title
- Behave
- Title remainder
- the biology of humans at our best and worst
- Statement of responsibility
- Robert M. Sapolsky
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Why do we do the things we do? Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky attempts to answer that question as fully as possible, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky starts by examining 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. 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 on in a person's brain a second before the behavior happened? Then Sapolsky pulls out to a slightly larger field of vision, a little earlier in time: What sight, sound, or smell caused the nervous system to produce that behavior? And then, what hormones acted hours to days earlier to change how responsive that individual is to the stimuli that triggered the nervous system? By now he has increased our field of vision so that we are thinking about neurobiology and the sensory world of our environment and endocrinology in trying to explain what happened. Sapolsky keeps going: How was that behavior influenced by structural changes in the nervous system over the preceding months, by that person's adolescence, childhood, fetal life, and then back to his or her genetic makeup? Finally, he expands the view to encompass factors larger than one individual. How did culture shape that individual's group, what ecological factors millennia old formed that culture? And on and on, back to evolutionary factors millions of years old
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sapolsky, Robert M
- Dewey number
- 612.8
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
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- QP355.2
- QP351
- LC item number
-
- .S2175 2017
- .S27 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
- WL 102
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Neurophysiology
- Neurobiology
- Animal behavior
- Nervous system
- Animal behavior
- SCIENCE
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- SCIENCE
- Nervous system
- Animal behavior
- Neurobiology
- Neurophysiology
- Neurophysiology
- Neurobiology
- Behavior, Animal
- Label
- Behave : the biology of humans at our best and worst, Robert M. Sapolsky
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 721-773) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix 1: Neuroscience 101 -- Appendix 2: The basics of endocrinology -- Appendix 3: Protein basics
- Control code
- ocn953597944
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 790 pages
- Isbn
- 9781594205071
- Lccn
- 2016056755
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other control number
- 40027157126
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9781594205071
- (OCoLC)953597944
- Label
- Behave : the biology of humans at our best and worst, Robert M. Sapolsky
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 721-773) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix 1: Neuroscience 101 -- Appendix 2: The basics of endocrinology -- Appendix 3: Protein basics
- Control code
- ocn953597944
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 790 pages
- Isbn
- 9781594205071
- Lccn
- 2016056755
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other control number
- 40027157126
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9781594205071
- (OCoLC)953597944
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