Sapolsky is the kind of author you’d like to cover every quadrant of human civilization. A person who has infinite curiosity, depth of knowledge, and humor about whatever they approach.

The concluding thoughts at the final pages of Behave aren’t revolutionary, they essentially just ask you to be a good person, but the specific combination of nitty-gritty science and common sense supplied in the book makes a compelling and thorough understanding of how to maximize your odds of being a “good person” as context dependent a thing like that is.

Behave is the kind of book that could make you obnoxious at parties. Oh ya, axon terminals? Know all about them and their dendritic branches, so glad you asked. It’s a book best used for implementing small, thoughtful observations about your own behavior, not being the center of attention at the dinner table.