Right now Robert Sapolsky, professor of neuroendocrinology at Stanford University, is tackling Antonio Damasio’s Descartes’ Error (Avon, 1995), a “great exploration of the interactions between cognition and emotion at the neurobiological level”, he says.
Another book he’s reading is Emergence by Steven Johnson (Penguin), which he says is one of the more scientific yet accessible versions of the emergence genre. And The Darwin Wars by Andrew Brown (Simon & Schuster, 2001) is “really smart, acerbic writing about gradualism versus saltation in evolution,” he adds.
On the lighter side, he’s just finished The Bravest Dog Ever by Natalie Standiford (Random House, 1989),…
