Behave

audiobook (Unabridged) The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

By Robert M Sapolsky

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Brought to you by Penguin.

The audiobook edition of Behave by Robert Sapolsky, read by Michael Goldstrom.


The New York Times
best seller

Winner of the 2017 LA Times Book Prize

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?
© Robert M Sapolsky 2018 (P) Penguin Audio 2018

Behave