Robert M. Sapolsky

Why do we do the things we do? Sanford professor Robert Sapolsky attempts to answer that question as fully possible, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky starts by examining the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy. The first category of explanation is the neurobiological...