出版社: Penguin Press
副标题: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
出版年: 2017-5-2
页数: 800
定价: USD 35.00
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781594205071
内容简介 · · · · · ·
Why do we do the things we do?
More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky’s genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky’s storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person’s reac...
Why do we do the things we do?
More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky’s genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky’s storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person’s reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy.
And so the first category of explanation is the neurobiological one. A behavior occurs–whether an example of humans at our best, worst, or somewhere in between. What went on in a person’s brain a second before the behavior happened? Then Sapolsky pulls out to a slightly larger field of vision, a little earlier in time: What sight, sound, or smell caused the nervous system to produce that behavior? And then, what hormones acted hours to days earlier to change how responsive that individual is to the stimuli that triggered the nervous system? By now he has increased our field of vision so that we are thinking about neurobiology and the sensory world of our environment and endocrinology in trying to explain what happened.
Sapolsky keeps going: How was that behavior influenced by structural changes in the nervous system over the preceding months, by that person’s adolescence, childhood, fetal life, and then back to his or her genetic makeup? Finally, he expands the view to encompass factors larger than one individual. How did culture shape that individual’s group, what ecological factors millennia old formed that culture? And on and on, back to evolutionary factors millions of years old.
The result is one of the most dazzling tours d’horizon of the science of human behavior ever attempted, a majestic synthesis that harvests cutting-edge research across a range of disciplines to provide a subtle and nuanced perspective on why we ultimately do the things we do…for good and for ill. Sapolsky builds on this understanding to wrestle with some of our deepest and thorniest questions relating to tribalism and xenophobia, hierarchy and competition, morality and free will, and war and peace. Wise, humane, often very funny, Behave is a towering achievement, powerfully humanizing, and downright heroic in its own right.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Robert M. Sapolsky is the author of several works of nonfiction, including A Primate’s Memoir, The Trouble with Testosterone, and Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers. He is a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation genius grant. He lives in San Francisco.
喜欢读"Behave"的人也喜欢 · · · · · ·
Behave的书评 · · · · · · ( 全部 16 条 )
It's complicated,但你不用在科学和慈悲之间做选择。
这篇书评可能有关键情节透露
“A behavior has just occurred. Why did it happen? Your first category of explanation is going to be a neurobiological one. What wen ton in that person’s brain a second before the behavior happened? Now pull out to a slightly larger field of vision, your n... (展开)> 更多书评 16篇
论坛 · · · · · ·
简体中文版将在湖南科学技术出版社出版 | 来自Andy_Henry | 2 回应 | 2024-01-20 16:21:54 |
简体中文 | 来自彳亍行 | 2020-08-17 07:28:40 | |
“外文原版图书”(淘宝店名)店中有售,链接为: | 来自本杰明 | 2017-11-11 16:49:29 |
这本书的其他版本 · · · · · · ( 全部11 )
-
Vintage (2018)暂无评分 6人读过
-
八旗文化 (2019)9.5分 288人读过
-
-
以下书单推荐 · · · · · · ( 全部 )
- 得到 | 万维钢精英日课书单 (Cong)
- Coconut: 英文作品序列 (Azeril)
- Goodreads4星+非虚构类书籍/5k+评分人数 (潘多拉的书单)
- 我偶然看到2 (明生)
- 书槽叁 (彭土曹)
谁读这本书? · · · · · ·
二手市场
· · · · · ·
订阅关于Behave的评论:
feed: rss 2.0
0 有用 RoutineCat 2022-07-13 22:36:55
就像末尾作者自己总结的,全书的最终感想就是:“It’s complicated.” 看了好久才看完,囫囵吞枣。不过有些地方还是多少理解了一下,很多behave的不同主要取决于context,context,context。
0 有用 Flora 2022-11-06 10:14:06 新加坡
好大部头,算是个集大成之作
0 有用 范德 2023-02-10 13:08:58 法国
A book that propagates passion for science from myriad interrelated perspectives to explain the strangest behavior complexities. It's heartwarming for those committed to scientific pursuit albeit some... A book that propagates passion for science from myriad interrelated perspectives to explain the strangest behavior complexities. It's heartwarming for those committed to scientific pursuit albeit sometimes hopeless iterations. He wrote, "If you are reading this, you're probably ideally suited" with intellectual tenacity and for being a lucky human. (展开)
0 有用 beren 2023-06-19 13:02:08 广东
很早之前听迟早更新推荐的,网上也有作者的公开课。非常棒的科普书,从各个角度和时间尺度上写了我们行为的机制。
1 有用 untamedheart 2020-02-22 13:01:41
Holy moly !
0 有用 Ed121 2023-12-01 17:47:56 上海
案例与分析都挺精彩的 不过确实有点太长篇大论了 没看完
0 有用 L1n 2023-09-06 14:20:24 北京
如果人类有本质的话,那这个本质是生物性的。人类的行为,是由各种因素综合起来一起塑造的,任何单一视角的解释都很可能是片面的。这些影响人类行为的因素包括:神经系统、当前的环境、内分泌、童年经历、胚胎环境、基因、文化和生物的演化机制等等。 正因为人类行为是生物性的,人们以为的自主意识,很可能根本不存在。人跟机器,也许并没有什么区别。当意识到这点之后,我的感觉就像是科幻电影里的人工智能机器人发现自己仅仅... 如果人类有本质的话,那这个本质是生物性的。人类的行为,是由各种因素综合起来一起塑造的,任何单一视角的解释都很可能是片面的。这些影响人类行为的因素包括:神经系统、当前的环境、内分泌、童年经历、胚胎环境、基因、文化和生物的演化机制等等。 正因为人类行为是生物性的,人们以为的自主意识,很可能根本不存在。人跟机器,也许并没有什么区别。当意识到这点之后,我的感觉就像是科幻电影里的人工智能机器人发现自己仅仅只是机器人的那种感觉,有一丝丝的悲凉。 (展开)
0 有用 Jimmy47 2023-07-31 18:34:27 黑龙江
万维刚精英日课3解读: 现在,科学,基本上把人看明白了。要理解人的行为,首先你得理解人是一种动物,是一种以特殊的方式特殊的动物。
0 有用 浩星思光 2023-06-27 20:07:06 北京
用了大概一周多的时间啃完的一本。 内容涉及面很广,有看术语看得脑壳疼的神经科学,也有相对“软”一点的社会学、心理学、行为学、生物学。 读完全书可能最明显的一个印象就是:事物是普遍联系的。用书中的一句总结来说就是:It's complicated. 可能是因为平时很少看这个领域的书,所以其中很多知识点还是挺有新意的。
0 有用 beren 2023-06-19 13:02:08 广东
很早之前听迟早更新推荐的,网上也有作者的公开课。非常棒的科普书,从各个角度和时间尺度上写了我们行为的机制。