Author
Robert M. Sapolsky
Robert Sapolsky is an American neuroscientist and primatologist who teaches at Stanford University. For more than thirty years he studied baboons in East Africa.
Books in Livria
- Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
A neuroscientist’s wife caught up with a rude driver at a red light and tossed a grape lollipop through his window. Robert Sapolsky takes any act apart step by step: what was happening in the brain a second before it…
- Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping
Why does a zebra that has just escaped a lion go back to grazing a minute later, while a person can fall ill from years of worrying about the future? Robert Sapolsky shows how the stress response, built for short…