How Humans Work

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How humans work on various levels: - Body - Brain (all levels) - autonomic reflexes, emotions, mental heuristics/evolutionary and developmental neuroscience - Relationship - Society including Religion, Culture
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Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
by Neil Shubin
2,965 members
80 reviews
3.9
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants
by Bill Bryson
3,897 members
119 reviews
4.1
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The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body
by David Macaulay
1,079 members
13 reviews
4.2
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
by Robert M. Sapolsky
2,548 members
29 reviews
4.2
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The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters
by Sean B. Carroll
246 members
4 reviews
3.8
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The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
by Gregory Cochran
460 members
16 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
by Bessel van der Kolk
8,430 members
105 reviews
4.2
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The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
by Antonio Damasio
423 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
by Joseph LeDoux
725 members
4 reviews
4
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10
T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us
by Carole Hooven
132 members
5 reviews
4.2
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Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
by Gaia Vince
179 members
5 reviews
3.8
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The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
by Geoffrey Miller
655 members
3 reviews
4
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14
Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love
by Helen E. Fisher
452 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
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Explaining Humans: Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2020
by Camilla Pang
248 members
5 reviews
2.8
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
14,983 members
266 reviews
4.1
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