Description: Further DetailsTitle: Curious BehaviorCondition: NewEAN: 9780674284135ISBN: 9780674284135Publisher: The Belknap PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/09/2014Item Height: 210mmItem Length: 140mmAuthor: Robert R. ProvineLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and BeyondISBN-10: 0674284135Description: Robert Provine boldly goes where other scientists seldom tread—in search of hiccups, coughs, yawns, sneezes, and other lowly, undignified human behaviors. Upon investigation, these instinctive acts bear the imprint of our evolutionary origins and can be uniquely valuable tools for understanding how the human brain works and what makes us different from other species.Many activities showcased in Curious Behavior are contagious, but none surpasses yawning in this regard—just reading the word can make one succumb. Though we often take it as a sign of sleepiness or boredom, yawning holds clues to the development of our sociality and ability to empathize with others. Its inescapable transmission reminds us that we are sometimes unaware, neurologically programmed beasts of the herd. Other neglected behaviors yield similar revelations. Tickling, we learn, may be the key to programming personhood into robots. Coughing comes in musical, medical, and social varieties. Farting and belching have import for the evolution of human speech. And prenatal behavior is offered as the strangest exhibit of all, defying postnatal logic in every way. Our earthiest acts define Homo sapiens as much as language, bipedalism, tool use, and other more studied characteristics.As Provine guides us through peculiarities right under our noses, he beckons us to follow with self-experiments: tickling our own feet, keeping a log of when we laugh, and attempting to suppress yawns and sneezes. Such humble investigations provide fodder for grade school science projects as well as doctoral dissertations. Small Science can yield big rewards.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, Science Nature & MathRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Curious Behavior
Title: Curious Behavior
EAN: 9780674284135
ISBN: 9780674284135
Release Date: 06/09/2014
Release Year: 2014
Subtitle: Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and Beyond
ISBN-10: 0674284135
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Science Nature & Math
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Name: Curious Behavior : Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and Beyond
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Subject: Life Sciences / Neuroscience, General, Evolutionary Psychology, Anthropology / Physical, Neuropsychology, Physiological Psychology, Life Sciences / Biology
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 0.7 in
Item Weight: 13 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Social Science, Science, Psychology
Author: Robert R. Provine
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
