ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™ VOCABULARY HUMANIST HUB OF SCIENCE STARS ROBERT SAPOLSKY July 17, 2021 Note: Robert Sapolsky is the celebrated neurobiologist and primatologist who is a Professor of Biology and Neurology at Stanford and a Research Associate with the Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya. His newest book is called Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (2017). His other distinguished science books include: The Trouble with Testosterone (1999); A Primate's Memoir (2001; Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers (2004 3rd ed.); Monkeyluv (2005); and Stress and Your Body (2010). Two of the books were Los Angeles Times Book Award finalists. Sapolsky is a regular contributor to Discover magazine and The Sciences. He is also the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" and he lives in San Francisco, California. Book #1 A PRIMATE'S MEMOIR: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons by Robert M. Sapolsky. Touchstone, 2002, 2001 (304 pages) This book is Sapolsky's account of his life in the African bush with both human and primate neighbors, by turns hilarious and poignant. It is the culmination of more than two decades of experience and research. He was often alone in the middle of the Serengeti with no radio, no television, no electricity, no running water, and no telephone. His nearest neighbors were the Masai, a warlike tribes-people whose marriages are polygamous, with wedding parties featuring bowls of cow's blood. Book #2 WHY ZEBRAS DON'T GET ULCERS by Robert M. Sapolsky. Holt Paperback/Owl Book, 2004, 3rd ed. new rev. and updated (i-v, 539 pages) Sapolsky's most popular book features new chapters on how stress affects sleep and addiction, as well as new insights into anxiety and personality disorder and the impact of spirituality on managing stress [3rd ed)... The diseases we fear --- and the ones that plague us now --- are illnesses brought on by the slow accumulation of damage, such as heart disease and cancer. When we worry or experience stress, our body turns on the same physiological responses that all animals do. However, we do not resolve conflict in the same way that animals do: through fighting or fleeing. Over time, continuously activating the stress response system can make us genuinely sick. Book #3 BEHAVE: The biology of humans at our best and worst by Robert M. Sapolsky. Penguin Group USA, 2017 (800 pages) This book is a new landmark genre-defining book on human behavior, both good and bad, which answers the consequential question: Why do we do the things we do? Sapolsky starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs. Then he goes back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy. Click or Tap Links to Book Outlines and Reviews Book #1: A PRIMATE'S MEMOIR A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons. OR Book #2: WHY ZEBRAS DON'T GET ULCERS OR Book #3: BEHAVE: The biology of humans at our best and worst. Click or Tap Star to Return to List RETURN TO THE HUMANIST GALAXY OF SECULAR BRAIN SCIENCE STARS ALPHABETICAL BRAIN VOCABULARY produced by Infinite Interactive Ideas™