{"id":32916,"date":"2020-05-08T10:01:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T15:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=32916"},"modified":"2020-05-08T10:01:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T15:01:31","slug":"behave-by-sapolsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/08\/behave-by-sapolsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Behave, by Sapolsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Why do we do the things we do?<\/p>\n<p>Over a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky&#8217;s genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky&#8217;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&#8217;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 genetic inheritance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B01IAUGC5S\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B01IAUGC5S&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=grlasbl0a-20&#038;linkId=6e864b17ec800f9eb65702734b43dd1f\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=grlasbl0a-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B01IAUGC5S\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> by Robert Sapolsky cheap now on Kindle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do we do the things we do? Over a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky&#8217;s genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky&#8217;s storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/08\/behave-by-sapolsky\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Behave, by Sapolsky<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5044],"tags":[1320,6126],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/cheap_books_greg_laden_blog-1.jpg?fit=678%2C381&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-8yU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32917,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32916\/revisions\/32917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}