Biology and Human Behavior: The Neurological Origins of Individuality, 2nd Edition

Investigate how the human brain is sculpted by evolution, genes, experience, hormones, and other influences to produce a wide range of behaviors, led by a prominent neurobiologist, zoologist, and MacArthur "genius" grant recipient.

• By This Professor
• 01: Biology and Behavior-An Introduction
• 02: The Basic Cells of the Nervous System
• 03: How Two Neurons Communicate
• 04: Learning and Synaptic Plasticity
• 05: The Dynamics of Interacting Neurons
• 06: The Limbic System
• 07: The Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
• 08: The Regulation of Hormones by the Brain
• 09: The Regulation of the Brain by Hormones
• 10: The Evolution of Behavior
• 11: The Evolution of Behavior-Some Examples
• 12: Cooperation, Competition, and Neuroeconomics
• 13: What Do Genes Do? Microevolution of Genes
• 14: What Do Genes Do? Macroevolution of Genes
• 15: Behavior Genetics
• 16: Behavior Genetics and Prenatal Environment
• 17: An Introduction to Ethology
• 18: Neuroethology
• 19: The Neurobiology of Aggression I
• 20: The Neurobiology of Aggression II
• 21: Hormones and Aggression
• 22: Early Experience and Aggression
• 23: Evolution, Aggression, and Cooperation
• 24: A Summary