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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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Eugh, developed a serious case of CBA whilst reading this!! (CBA=Can't be arsed!!) So I did not finish. I sped read through and skimmed for any interesting morsels!
The title was misleading to say the least. Humans at our best and worst?!!!! No, it was the history of neuroscience at its worst!
It was a bogged down, overly expansive historical account of neurobiology! I have read similar books to this before and wouldn't have started this if I'd known it would be more of the same!
Reviewers (Matt, Oct 24, 2017 and Jen, Jun 16, 2019) have handily listed all the citations of "red flag" experiments mentioned by Sapolsky that seem to be replicated in EVERY other book about neuroscience and have dubious scientific grounding!!
Also, I'm sick of hearing about the Milgram Experiment and the Prisoner's Dilemma!
For a study on the biology of humans, Sapolsky also overly concentrated on chimps, bonobos (I know I know we share high percentages of DNA), rats and small furry animals! The mentioned human studies were surprise surprise twin studies!!!!!!
I think I've had my fill of books like these as they are far too similar in nature to be interesting any more.
Bloody neuroscience!
The title was misleading to say the least. Humans at our best and worst?!!!! No, it was the history of neuroscience at its worst!
It was a bogged down, overly expansive historical account of neurobiology! I have read similar books to this before and wouldn't have started this if I'd known it would be more of the same!
Reviewers (Matt, Oct 24, 2017 and Jen, Jun 16, 2019) have handily listed all the citations of "red flag" experiments mentioned by Sapolsky that seem to be replicated in EVERY other book about neuroscience and have dubious scientific grounding!!
Also, I'm sick of hearing about the Milgram Experiment and the Prisoner's Dilemma!
For a study on the biology of humans, Sapolsky also overly concentrated on chimps, bonobos (I know I know we share high percentages of DNA), rats and small furry animals! The mentioned human studies were surprise surprise twin studies!!!!!!
I think I've had my fill of books like these as they are far too similar in nature to be interesting any more.
Bloody neuroscience!
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Reading Progress
May 23, 2019
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May 23, 2019
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to-read
Started Reading
September 29, 2019
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did-not-finish-or-skim-read
September 29, 2019
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Finished Reading
February 26, 2024
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non-fiction
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Petra It's a year now, still in a dark place
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Jun 21, 2020 08:20AM
I was going to read this book until I read your review. You hit all the points that would get me! Thank you.
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Petra X, yeah don't waste your time. There are other much better books out there x
Can you give an example of such a book?
Jan wrote: "Can you give an example of such a book?"Hi Jan, any Oliver Sacks title, but particularly The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales, Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind, A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives or any Kay Redfield Jamison title. Try these for starters.
my thoughts exactly lol
Maria wrote: "my thoughts exactly lol"😂😂👍👍
