Curious Behavior : : Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and Beyond
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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.
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PUBLISHED
London : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: vii, 271 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780674048515
0674048512
SUBJECTS
Human behavior.
Human biology.
Neuropsychology.
Evolutionary psychology.