Curious behavior : yawning, laughing, hiccupping, and beyond / Robert R. Provine.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Description: 271 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780674048515
  • 0674048512
  • 9780674284135
  • 0674284135
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 152.3/2 23
LOC classification:
  • BF199 .P765 2012
Contents:
Introduction -- Yawning -- Laughing -- Vocal crying -- Emotional tears -- Whites of the eyes -- Coughing -- Sneezing -- Hiccupping -- Vomiting and nausea -- Tickling -- Itching and scratching -- Farting and belching -- Prenatal behavior.
Summary: "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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-262) and index.

Introduction -- Yawning -- Laughing -- Vocal crying -- Emotional tears -- 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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