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Honestly, the best nonfiction book I've read in a decade. I'm a huge Sapolsky fan, but this was a big beast of an undertaking. Why do we do the things we do, starting from the neurotransmitters at moment we make (or don't actually make, but convince ourselves that we did) a decision to the chemical environment a few minutes before, the hormonal influences days to months before, and the sociological and evolutionary influences over our decisions going back generations or millennia? All with an ey
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Honestly, the best nonfiction book I've read in a decade. I'm a huge Sapolsky fan, but this was a big beast of an undertaking. Why do we do the things we do, starting from the neurotransmitters at moment we make (or don't actually make, but convince ourselves that we did) a decision to the chemical environment a few minutes before, the hormonal influences days to months before, and the sociological and evolutionary influences over our decisions going back generations or millennia? All with an ey
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