Curious behavior : yawning, laughing, hiccupping, and beyond /
Provine, Robert R.
Curious behavior : yawning, laughing, hiccupping, and beyond / Robert R. Provine. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012. - vii, 271 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Yawning -- Laughing -- Vocal crying -- Emotional tearing -- Whites of the eyes -- Coughing -- Sneezing -- Hiccupping -- Vomiting and nausea -- Tickling -- Itching and scratching -- Farting and belching -- Prenatal behavior.
"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." -- Back jacket.
0674048512 (alk. paper) 9780674048515 (alk. paper)
2012007754
Evolutionary psychology.
Human behavior.
Human biology.
Neuropsychology.
Curious behavior : yawning, laughing, hiccupping, and beyond / Robert R. Provine. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012. - vii, 271 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Yawning -- Laughing -- Vocal crying -- Emotional tearing -- Whites of the eyes -- Coughing -- Sneezing -- Hiccupping -- Vomiting and nausea -- Tickling -- Itching and scratching -- Farting and belching -- Prenatal behavior.
"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." -- Back jacket.
0674048512 (alk. paper) 9780674048515 (alk. paper)
2012007754
Evolutionary psychology.
Human behavior.
Human biology.
Neuropsychology.