About the book
The question of why humans behave as they do, at their best and their worst, drives neurobiologist and primatologist Robert M. Sapolsky's study, more than a decade in the making. He starts at the moment of an action and steps backward in time: the brain a second earlier, the sight, sound or smell that triggered it, and hormones acting hours or days before. Further back come months of change in the nervous system, then adolescence, childhood, fetal life and genes, and finally culture, ecology and evolution over millions of years. With that framework he tackles war and peace, free will and morality, tribalism, xenophobia and hierarchy. The 2017 book became a New York Times bestseller.
Vinod Khosla put it on his 2017 recommendations as one of the best insights into the brain and behavior, and a top pick of his year along with Scale.
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Vinod Khosla (Co-Founder/Sun Microsystem)
Among the best insights into our brain and behavior. A top of the charts for me for this year, along with Scale.
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