BEHAVE: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

As the famous primatologist and neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky says, if you want to understand human behavior and the nature of a good or bad deed, you have to understand literally everything - both what happened a second before it, and what happened millions of years ago. In the book, the author takes a step-by-step - one might say, in a chronological context - and in great detail considers a huge number of factors that influence our behavior. How does our brain work? What is the amygdala ...