Neuroscience
Behavior
Why we do what we do, from the neuron up to culture.
Behave · by Robert Sapolsky
The most complete map of human behavior, told with humor by one of the great living neuroscientists.
Why read it
Sapolsky takes a single human action and explains it backwards: what happened in the brain a second before, what hormones hours before, what experiences years before, what evolution millennia before. The result is the most honest picture of why we are the way we are.