SAPOLSKY M. ROBERT

(P/B) BEHAVE
Why do human beings behave as they do? We are capable of savage acts of violence but also spectacular feats of kindness: is one side of our nature destined to win out over the other? Every act of human behaviour has multiple layers of causation, spiralling back seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, even centuries, right back to the dawn of time and the origins of our species. In the epic sweep of history, how does our biology affect the arc of war and peace, justice and persecution? How have our brains evolved alongside our cultu...
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(P/B) WHY ZEBRAS DON'T GET ULCERS

(H/B) BEHAVE
Why do we do what we do? Behave is a dazzling tour and a groundbreaking synthesis of the whole science of human behaviour. It presents fascinating explanations for our everyday experience while also offering the fullest picture yet of the origins of tribalism and xenophobia, war and peace. Its ingenious method is to move backwards in time from the moment at which a behaviour occurs, revealing its causes layer by layer - from the split-second reactions of the brain and nervous system to the interactions of hormones, which prime our behaviou...
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(P/B) Determined
What if free will is an illusion? As Robert Sapolsky shows in this masterful account of the science of human behaviour, everything we think and do is caused by the luck of our biology and the influence of our environment, and ultimately both are beyond our control. In a world without free will, we must completely rethink what we mean by choice, responsibility, morality and justice. Sapolsky's extraordinary book does exactly this, guiding us toward a profoundly fairer, more humane way of living together. (From the publisher)...
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