Behave

In this collection, Behave references 4 other books and is cited by 7 other books.

It draws on The Selfish Gene, Thinking, Fast and Slow and The Righteous Mind.

It’s picked up by The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat, The Circadian Code: Lose Weight, Supercharge Your Energy, and Transform Your Health from Morning to Midnight and The Longevity Diet: Discover the New Science Behind Stem Cell Activation and Regeneration to Slow Aging, Fight Disease, and Optimize Weight and 4 others.

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Behave is widely regarded as the most ambitious single-volume attempt to explain human behavior through biology, and other scientists regularly lean on Sapolsky's work in their own books. Stephan Guyenet draws on his dopamine research to explain compulsive eating, Satchin Panda uses his cortisol work to ground circadian health claims, and Will Storr credits his neurobiology-and-behavior integration as the backbone for understanding why stories feel true. Readers praise the book's remarkable scope -- tracing every action from the millisecond before it happens back through evolution -- though many warn it is dense and demanding, essentially a graduate-level textbook disguised as popular science.

Bill Bryson draws on it for his nervous-system chapters in The Body, and Ed Yong's An Immense World treats it as a complementary perspective on how brains process the world. For readers willing to invest the time, it is consistently recommended as the most complete map of why humans do what they do.