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Behave

Summary

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (2017) by Robert Sapolsky is a comprehensive account of the biological roots of human behavior—examining how hormones, neuroscience, genetics, and evolutionary history shape why we do what we do.

Core Contribution

Definitive popular synthesis of the biology of human behavior; integrates neuroscience, endocrinology, evolutionary biology, and anthropology.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • neuroscience
  • behavior
  • biology
  • human nature

Historical Influences

Robert Sapolsky behavioral neuroscience

Intellectual Lineage

Sapolsky's workbehavioral biology

Allied Works

Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will

Contemporaries & Peers

Other behavioral biology books

Minds Influenced

Popular understanding of behavior and biology

Intellectual Posterity

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