New York Times bestseller • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • One of the Washington Post’s 10 Best Books of the Year
It’s no exaggeration to say that Behave is one of the best nonfiction books I’ve ever read.
- David P. Barash, The Wall Street Journal
It has my vote for science book of the year.
- Parul Sehgal, The New York Times
Immensely readable, often hilarious...Hands-down one of the best books I’ve read in years. I loved it.
- Dina Temple-Raston, The Washington Post
From the bestselling author of A Primate’s Memoir and Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will comes a landmark, genre-defining examination of human behavior and an answer to the question: Why do we do the things we do?
Behave is one of the most dazzling tours d’horizon of the science of human behavior ever attempted. Moving across a range of disciplines, Sapolsky - a neuroscientist and primatologist - uncovers the hidden story of our actions. Undertaking some of our thorniest questions relating to tribalism and xenophobia, hierarchy and competition, and war and peace, Behave is a towering achievement - a majestic synthesis of cutting-edge research and a heroic exploration of why we ultimately do the things we do… for good and for ill.