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Why do we do the things we do? Greater than a 10 years in the making, this game-changing publication is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as completely as perhaps only he could, considering it out of every perspective. Sapolsky's storytelling notion is delightful, but it also has a robust intrinsic reasoning: He starts off by considering the factors that keep on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs and then hops back in its history after that in stages, eventually finding yourself at the profound record of our kinds and its evolutionary legacy. And so the first category of explanation is the neurobiological one. A behavior occurs - whether a good example of humans at our best, worst, or somewhere in between. What continued in a person's brain a second before the behavior happened? Then Sapolsky pulls out to a somewhat much larger field of perspective, a little early on with time: What view, sound, or smell brought on the stressed system to produce that behavior? And then, what hormones acted time to days early on to change how responsive that individual is to the stimuli that activated the stressed system? By now he has increased our field of perspective so that we are thinking about neurobiology and the sensory world of our environment and endocrinology in endeavoring to explain what happened. Sapolsky keeps going. How was that behavior inspired by structural changes in the stressed system in the preceding months, by that person's adolescence, childhood, fetal life, and then back to his / her genetic cosmetic? Finally he expands the view to encompass factors bigger than one individual. How did culture form that individual's group? What ecological factors millennia old created that culture? And on and on, back to evolutionary factors an incredible number of years old. The effect is one of the most dazzling trips d'horizon of the knowledge of human behavior ever before attempted, a majestic synthesis that harvests cutting-edge research across a range of disciplines to provide a delicate and nuanced perspective on why we eventually do the things we do...for good and for sick. Sapolsky builds upon this understanding to wrestle with some of our deepest and thorniest questions associated with tribalism and xenophobia, hierarchy and competition, morality and free will, and battle and peace. Wise, humane, often very funny, Behave is a towering accomplishment, powerfully humanizing, and downright heroic in its own right.
