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

    By: Provine, Robert R [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014Description: 271 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780674284135; 0674284135Subject(s): Human behavior | Human biology | Neuropsychology | Evolutionary psychology | Behaviorism | Biological Evolution | Biological Phenomena | Neuropsychology | Psychology | Evolutionary psychology | Human behavior | Human biology | NeuropsychologyDDC classification: 152.32 LOC classification: BF199 | .P765 2014
    Contents:
    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.
    Summary: Boldly goes where other scientists seldom tread.in search of hiccups, coughs, yawns, sneezes, and other lowly, undignified human behaviours. Upon investigation, these instinctive acts bear the imprint of our evolutionary origins and can be valuable tools for understanding how the human brain works and what makes us different from other species.
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    Originally published: 2012.

    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Boldly goes where other scientists seldom tread.in search of hiccups, coughs, yawns, sneezes, and other lowly, undignified human behaviours. Upon investigation, these instinctive acts bear the imprint of our evolutionary origins and can be valuable tools for understanding how the human brain works and what makes us different from other species.

    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.

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