Biology of good and evil. How science explains our actions. Sapolski R.

As the famous primatologist and neurobiologist Robert Sapolski says, if you want to understand the behavior of a person and the nature of a good or bad act, you will have to figure out literally in everything - and what happened a second before him, and in the fact that there were millions years ago.

In the book, the author is in stages - we can say, in a chronological context - and considers in great detail a huge number of factors affecting our behavior. How does our brain work? What is the tonsil for, and why should we thank the frontal bark? What does the island “hates”? Why is the Hippocampus increased among London taxi drivers? How are the lengths of index and ring fingers and the amount of intrauterine testosterone related? How do adolescents differ from children and adults from the point of view of neurobiology? Are there "pure" altruists? What is the difference between forgiveness and reconciliation? Is there free will? How do complex social ties 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.