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 the forthcoming
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?
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,
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.