Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the most social of animals.Robert M. Sapolsky

Every generation is more individualistic and less conforming than the one before.Robert M. Sapolsky

Any system that does not take into account a context of adversity or distress in prognosis, or does not consider the onset of times of relative wellbeing or minimal stress, is missing a large part of the narrativeRobert M. Sapolsky

There's clarity and then there's hope. And hope can make the scientific waters run awfully muddy.Robert M. Sapolsky

Biologists tend to think of evolution as a very slow process while neuroscientists think in milliseconds. The clash of those two timescales really defines who we are.Robert M. Sapolsky

You don't have to choose between being scientific and being compassionate.Robert M. Sapolsky

If there's one law of history, it's that utopias built to reflect divine simplicity and perfection tend to produce a lot of corpses.Robert M. Sapolsky

We are such a disastrous, screwed-up blend of biology and culture that it's amazing we're not all swindling one another while being hopelessly inept at replicating.Robert M. Sapolsky

Understanding a behavior requires comprehending its proximate, ontogenetic and evolutionary levels, and culture.Robert M. Sapolsky

Our brains are like Swiss Army knives, each component designed to solve a different problem of survival.Robert M. Sapolsky