Genes and Behavior

How Genes Influence Behavior 2e takes a personal and lively approach to the study of behavioral genetics, providing an up-to-date and accessible in...

Reducere. "A lucid, thought-provoking account of the case for 'nature' as a determinant of personality."--Peter D. Kramer, Author of Listening to Prozac and ...

Your genes are not your destiny: learn to prevent disease, improve brain function, and reverse the course of obesity and premature aging through ea...

A comparative and integrative overview of how and why animals as diverse as insects and humans behave the way that they do, linking behaviors to th...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the gene that causes people to age prematurely to the "bitter gene" that may spawn broccoli haters, this book explores a few of the...

Reducere. The Genomic Kitchen is a system of cooking and eating that directly connects the food you eat with the behavior of your genes. Flexible to your nee...

DescriptionThe Princeton Guide to Evolution is a comprehensive, concise, and authoritative reference to the major subjects and key concepts in evol...

Humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. While we are similar to other mammals in many ways, our behavior sets us apart. This book offer...

Reducere. The Ape that Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human animal. It opens with a question: How would an al...

Reducere. In Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different school...

Reducere. Where do the roots of addictive behavior lie -- in our genes or in our environment, in our chemistry or in our character? In the Craving Brain, Dr....

Reducere. This graphic nonfiction book introduces how genes impact an organism's inherited traits, including variation, hybrids, mutations, and nature versus...

Reducere. What if our soundest, most reasonable judgments are beyond our control?Despite 2500 years of contemplation by the world's greatest minds and the mo...

DescriptionWidely considered the go-to reference--and now extensively revised with over 65% new material--this authoritative handbook surveys the l...

Reducere. This manual has been revised and updated to include even more strategies, techniques and secrets of persuasion. Covert Hypnosis is the utilization ...

Reducere. A unique trait of the human species is that our personalities, lifestyles, and worldviews are shaped by an accident of birth--namely, the culture i...

A single species of fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has been the subject of scientific research for more than one hundred years. Why does this tiny i...

Reducere. At an experimental school on Nantucket Island, Montgomery Hughes discovers a dark secret. In 2032, biotech entrepreneur Sonja Woodward has created ...

Your information has a life of its own, and it's using you to get what it wants. One of the most peculiar and possibly unique features of humans is...