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      Behave

      Behave

      The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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      Limba:
      Engleza
      Data publicării:
      2018
      Editura:
      Tip copertă:
      Paperback
      Nr Pag:
      800
      ISBN:
      9780099575061
      Dimensiuni: l: 13cm | H: 20cm | 1.4cm | 159g
      Descriere

      'Awe-inspiring… You will learn more about human nature than in any other book I can think of' Henry Marsh


      'One of the best scientist-writers of our time' Oliver Sacks

      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 cultures?

      This is the exhilarating story of human morality and the science underpinning the biggest question of all: what makes us human?
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      It is one of the most complex books I read in my life. And one of the most rewarding for understanding moral systems and their biological roots. I remember pausing often to be able to make sense and integrate the richness of data, interpretations and corelations. Being a professor of biology, neurology and neurosurgery at Stanford University, Sapolsky’s approach is both highly scientific and easily understandable, yet the information is dense and the examples cover an impressive spectrum of behaviours.

      When in contact with a certain behaviour, we seldom judge it by itself and more often we judge it based on who did it and whether the person belongs to our group, a friendly group or an enemy group. Then we react accordingly. This is if we do not already subscribe to the view of Abba Eban, an Israeli diplomat and politician: “History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely only after they have exhausted all other options.”

      Sapolsky believes that biology makes history different for different people.

      Cosmin Alexandru

      Co-founder Teamology Institute

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