Monkeyluv (E-Book, EPUB)
eBook - And Other Lessons in Our Lives as Animals
Verlag:
ISBN/EAN: 9781446468807
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 224 S., 0.30 MB
Erschienen am
31.03.2011
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
Described by Oliver Sacks as 'one of the best scientist-writers of our time', Robert M. Sapolsky here presents the human animal in all its quirkiness and diversity.In these remarkable essays, Sapolsky once again deploys his compassion and insights into the human condition to tell us who, why and how we are.Monkeyluvtouches on themes such as sexuality, aggression, love, parenting, religion, ageing, and mental illness. He ponders such topics as our need to seek out beauty; why our preferences in food become fixed; why we are sexually attracted to one another; why Alzheimer's disease tends to be a post-menopausal phenomenon; and why grandmothers buying groceries for their grandchildren are part of nature's Darwinian logic.
Robert M. Sapolsky holds degrees from Harvard and Rockefeller Universities and is currently a Professor of Biology and Neurology at Stanford University and a Research Associate with the Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya. He is the author ofThe Trouble with Testosterone,Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers(both finalists for theLA TimesBook Award), andA Primate's Memoir(also published by Cape). A regular contributor toNatural History,Discover,Men's Health, andScientific American, and a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation genius grant, Sapolsky lives in San Francisco.
Funny, serious, important essays about how the human animal functions.
