Audiobooks by Robert M. Sapolsky

Determined: The Science of Life Without Free Will

"Brought to you by Penguin. One of the world’s greatest scientists of human behaviour, the bestselling author of Behave, shows that free will does not exist - and sets out the disturbing yet liberating implications of accepting this fact. What if free will is an illusion? As Robert Sapolsky shows in this masterful account of the science of human behaviour, everything we think and do is caused by the luck of our biology and the influence of our environment, and ultimately both are beyond our control. In a world without free will, we must completely rethink what we mean by choice, responsibility, morality and justice. Sapolsky’s extraordinary book does exactly this, guiding us toward a profoundly fairer, more humane way of living together. ‘A joy to read. It's impossible to recommend this book too highly. Reading it could change your life’ LAURENCE REES ‘Outstanding for its breadth of research, the liveliness of the writing and the depth of humanity it conveys’ Wall Street Journal ‘Moving, absorbing, compassionate' OLIVER BURKEMAN, Observer ©2023 Robert M Sapolsky (P)2023 Penguin Audio"

Robert M. Sapolsky (Author), Kaleo Griffith (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Memorias de un primate: La vida nada convencional de un neurocientifico entre babuinos (

"En la tradición de Jane Goodall y Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, uno de los divulgadores científicos más reconocidos en la actualidad, cuenta la fascinante historia de cómo dejó las comodidades de la universidad para compartir durante más de dos décadas su trabajo de campo con una tropa de traviesos babuinos en la sabana africana. Sólo un joven idealista podía aterrizar en el corazón de Kenia esperando encontrar ahí una versión animada de lo que había visto y estudiado hasta entonces en el Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Nueva York. Memorias de un primate combina serias observaciones científicas con comentarios irónicos sobre los desafíos y placeres de la vida en la selva del Serengueti. Sapolsky sobrevive a atrocidades culinarias y surrealistas encuentros a punta de pistola, mientras da buena cuenta de la invasión de la mentalidad turística en los vestigios más remotos del África virgen. Durante su investigación sobre las alteraciones en el sistema nervioso de los primates enfrentados a situaciones de estrés, se enamora perdidamente de estos animales, a primera vista agresivos y bastante antipáticos, y regresa a ellos verano tras verano. Aislado en la sabana, sin luz y sin agua, pero con el humor y la curiosidad siempre bien dispuestos, Sapolsky se convierte en un agudo observador de la fauna animal y humana del lugar."

Robert M. Sapolsky (Author), Tony Chiroldes (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Compórtate: La biologia que hay detras de nuestros mejores y peores comp (The Biology of

"Un examen minucioso del comportamiento humano y una respuesta a la pregunta: ¿por qué hacemos las cosas que hacemos? Sapolsky analiza los factores en juego, desde el momento previo hasta los factores arraigados en la historia de nuestra especie y su legado evolutivo. Partiendo de una explicación neurobiológica —¿qué sucedió en el cerebro de una persona un segundo antes de que se comportara así?, ¿qué visión, sonido u olor hicieron que el sistema nervioso produjera ese comportamiento?—, pasamos a pensar en el mundo sensorial y la endocrinología: ¿cómo fue influenciado ese comportamiento por cambios estructurales en el sistema nervioso durante los meses anteriores, por la adolescencia, la infancia y la vida fetal de esa persona, e incluso por su composición genética? Y, más allá del individuo, ¿cómo dio forma la cultura al grupo de ese individuo, qué factores ecológicos milenarios formaron esa cultura? El resultado es uno de los recorridos más deslumbrantes de la ciencia del comportamiento humano jamás propuestos, que puede responder a muchas preguntas profundas y espinosas sobre el tribalismo y la xenofobia, la jerarquía, la competencia, la moral y el libre albedrío, la guerra y la paz."

Robert M. Sapolsky (Author), Martin Untrojb (Narrator)

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A Primate's Memoir

"Brought to you by Penguin. Discover this remarkable account of twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of Savannah baboons from the New York Times bestselling author of Behave. Brooklyn-born Robert Sapolsky grew up wishing he could live in the primate diorama in the Museum of Natural History. At school he wrote fan letters to primatologists and even taught himself Swahili, all with the hope of one day joining his primate brethren in Africa. But when, at the age of twenty-one, Sapolky's dream finally comes true he discovers that the African bush bears little resemblance to the tranquillity of a museum. This is the story of the next twenty-one years as Sapolsky slowly infiltrates and befriends a troop of Savannah baboons. Alone in the middle of the Serengeti with no electricity, running water or telephone, and surviving countless scams, culinary atrocities and a surreal kidnapping, Sapolsky becomes ever more enamoured with his adopted baboon troop - unique and compelling characters in their own right - and he returns to them summer after summer, until tragedy finally prevails. Exhilarating, hilarious and poignant, A Primate's Memoir is a uniquely honest window into the coming-of-age of one of our greatest scientific minds. 'One of the best scientist-writers of our time' Oliver Sacks 'A Primate's Memoir is the closest the baboon is likely to come - and it's plenty close enough - to having its own Iliad' New York Times Review of Books © Robert M Sapolsky 2001 (P) Penguin Audio 2021"

Robert M. Sapolsky (Author), Mike Chamberlain (Narrator)

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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

"Brought to you by Penguin. The audiobook edition of Behave by Robert Sapolsky, read by Michael Goldstrom. The New York Times best seller Winner of the 2017 LA Times Book Prize Why do human beings behave as they do? We are capable of savage acts of violence but also spectacular feats of kindness: is one side of our nature destined to win out over the other? Every act of human behaviour has multiple layers of causation, spiralling back seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, even centuries, right back to the dawn of time and the origins of our species. In the epic sweep of history, how does our biology affect the arc of war and peace, justice and persecution? How have our brains evolved alongside our cultures? This is the exhilarating story of human morality and the science underpinning the biggest question of all: what makes us human? © Robert M Sapolsky 2018 (P) Penguin Audio 2018"

Robert M. Sapolsky (Author), Michael Goldstrom (Narrator)

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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

"Now in a third edition, Robert M. Sapolsky's acclaimed and successful Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers 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. As Sapolsky explains, most of us do not lie awake at night worrying about whether we have leprosy or malaria. Instead, 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 an animal's does, but we do not resolve conflict in the same way—through fighting or fleeing. Over time, this activation of a stress response makes us literally sick. Combining cutting-edge research with a healthy dose of good humor and practical advice, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers explains how prolonged stress causes or intensifies a range of physical and mental afflictions, including depression, ulcers, colitis, heart disease, and more. It also provides essential guidance to controlling our stress responses. This new edition promises to be the most comprehensive and engaging one yet."

Robert M. Sapolsky (Author), Peter Berkrot (Narrator)

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