About the author
Robert M. Sapolsky is an American neuroscientist, primatologist, and Stanford professor. His research on stress and behavior crosses endocrinology, brain science, field observation, development, culture, and evolution.
Behave begins after an action has occurred — generous, violent, or impossible to classify — and asks why. Robert Sapolsky moves backward through time: what happened in the brain a second before, in the body minutes before, during childhood, across generations, and over evolutionary history.
Where to start
Start with Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst. Robert Sapolsky traces a human action backward through the brain, body, childhood, culture, and evolutionary past that shaped it.
