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About the product As the famous primatologist and neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky says, if you want to understand human behavior and the nature of a good or bad deed, you will have to understand literally everything — both what happened a second before him, and what was millions of years back. In the book, the author examines in great detail a huge number of factors that influence our behavior in stages — one might say chronologically — and in great detail. How does our brain work? What is the amygdala responsible for, and what should we thank the frontal cortex for? What does the island «hate»? Why do London taxi drivers have an enlarged hippocampus? How are the lengths of the index and ring fingers and the amount of intrauterine testosterone related? How do adolescents differ from children and adults from a neuroscience perspective? Are there «pure» altruists? What is the difference between forgiveness and reconciliation? Is there free will? How do complex social connections affect our behavior and decision making? And this is only a small part of the issues considered in the large-scale work of the famous scientist. …
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