Curious Behavior : : Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and Beyond / / Robert R. Provine.
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...
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Provine, Robert R., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Curious Behavior : Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and Beyond / Robert R. Provine. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012] ©2012 1 online resource (246 p.) : 27 line illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- contents -- introduction -- 1 yawning -- 2 laughing -- 3 vocal crying -- 4 emotional tearing -- 5 whites of the eyes -- 6 coughing -- 7 sneezing -- 8 hiccupping -- 9 vomiting and nausea -- 10 tickling -- 11 itching and scratching -- 12 farting and belching -- 13 prenatal behavior -- APPENDIX: the behavioral keyboard -- notes -- references -- acknowledgments -- index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2012 9783110288995 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PACKAGE BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY, GEOSCIENCES 2012 9783110294071 ZDB-23-DBE Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PAKET BIOLOGIE, CHEMIE, GEOWISS. 2012 9783110294064 ZDB-23-DBC Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) 9783110756067 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 print 9780674048515 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067226 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674067226 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674067226.jpg |
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