Robert Sapolsky is a neuroendocrinologist and primatologist at Stanford. He’s been studying baboons in Kenya for decades, and that gave him solid results to sprinkle across the book. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst is, in the simplest terms, an attempt to answer a single question: Why do we do what we do? Specifically, why do we sometimes harm each other, and why, in those other moments, do we show staggering kindness, courage, and sacrifice? It was first published in 2017.
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