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Behave :

(Number (ISBN

1524735167

(Number (ISBN

1524735175

(Number (ISBN

9781524735166

(Number (ISBN

9781524735173

Title Proper

Behave :

General Material Designation

VL

Other Title Information

the biology of humans at our best and worst /

First Statement of Responsibility

Robert M. Sapolsky.

Edition Statement

Unabridged.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Penguin Audio,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (1 sound file) :

Other Physical Details

digital

Text of Note

Electronic audio file.

Text of Note

Read by Michael Goldstrom.

Text of Note

"Why do we do the things we do? Over 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 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. The result is one of the most dazzling tours d'horizon of the science of human behavior ever attempted, a majestic synthesis that harvests cutting-edge research across a range of disciplines to provide a subtle and nuanced.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

OverDrive, Inc.

Stock Number

AB92B142-3715-4641-92F5-F99F63413F59

Title

Behave

International Standard Book Number

9780735222786

Animal behavior.

Neurobiology.

Neurophysiology.

Animal behavior.

MEDICAL / Physiology

Neurobiology.

Neurophysiology.

Nonfiction.

SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology

Science.

Sociology.

MED-- 075000

SCI-- 036000

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Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

System Code

Sapolsky, Robert M.

Goldstrom, Michael,1974-

Date of Transaction

20200823042046.0

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rda

Electronic name

VL

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