Behave : the biology of humans at our best and worst
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- ISBN: 9781594205071
- ISBN: 1594205078
- ISBN: 9780143110910
- ISBN: 0143110918
- ISBN: 9780735222786
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790 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm - Publisher: New York, New York : Penguin Press, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 721-773) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 -- Glossary of abbreviations -- Notes -- Illustration credits -- Index. |
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