The chemistry of human nature
By: Tom Husband
Contributors: Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain)
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9781782621348
Subjects: Biochemistry; Popular works
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: ch. 1; title: The Chemistry of Space Travel -- -- 1.1.; title: Is it in Our Nature? -- -- 1.2.; title: A Reaction of Self-replication -- -- 1.3.; title: A Risky Strategy -- -- 1.3.1.; title: Eating -- -- 1.3.2.; title: Reproduction -- -- 1.3.3.; title: Status -- -- 1.3.4.; title: Free Will -- -- 1.4.; title: Chemistry Fundamentals-A Possible Way Back --; title: References -- -- ch. 2; title: The Chemistry of Taste -- -- 2.1.; title: How Muscles Work -- -- 2.2.; title: How Taste Buds Work -- -- 2.2.1.; title: Ion Channel Taste Receptors -- -- 2.2.2.; title: G-Protein Coupled Taste Receptors -- -- 2.2.3.; title: What Happens Next? -- -- 2.3.; title: What They All Have in Common --; title: References -- -- ch. 3; title: The Chemistry of Pleasure -- -- 3.1.; title: The Pleasure Circuit -- -- 3.1.1.; title: Ions and Potential -- -- 3.1.2.; title: How Neurons in the Gustatory Nerve Transmit Sweet Signals -- -- 3.1.3.; title: Tasting Chocolate: The Next Step -- -- 3.2.; title: The Case for Food Addiction -- -- 3.2.1.; title: Where Next for Dopamine and Food Addiction? --; title: References ---- ch. 4; title: The Chemistry of Life's Origins -- -- 4.1.; title: Where Did RNA Come From? -- -- 4.2.; title: Chemical Evolution -- -- 4.3.; title: Cosmic Origins --; title: References -- -- ch. 5; title: The Chemistry of Evolution -- -- 5.1.; title: From Self-replicators to Organisms -- -- 5.1.1.; title: Cell Membranes -- -- 5.1.2.; title: Proteins -- -- 5.2.; title: From Replication to Reproduction -- -- 5.2.1.; title: Single-celled Organisms -- -- 5.2.2.; title: Multicellular Organisms -- -- 5.2.3.; title: Sexual Reproduction -- -- 5.3.; title: Developing Choice -- -- 5.4.; title: Introducing Pleasure --; title: References --; title: Section 1: Concluding Remarks --; title: References -- -- ch. 6; title: The Chemistry of Lust -- -- 6.1.; title: Androgens and Women -- -- 6.2.; title: How Testosterone Works -- -- 6.3.; title: A Radical Transmitter -- -- 6.4.; title: Priming Genitals -- -- 6.5.; title: The Lust Hypothesis --; title: References -- -- ch. 7; title: The Chemistry of Romantic Love -- -- 7.1.; title: Monoamines -- -- 7.1.1.; title: Getting Rid of Monoamines -- -- 7.2.; title: The Hypothesis Develops -- -- 7.3.; title: Duping Dopamine Receptors -- -- 7.4.; title: What about Humans?̂̂̂; title: 7.5.; title: Which Neurotransmitter? -- -- 7.6.; title: Why Does My Heart Go Boom? -- -- 7.7.; title: Another Role for Noradrenaline --; title: References -- -- ch. 8; title: The Chemistry of Attachment -- -- 8.1.; title: The Puppet Masters of Mammalian Attachment -- -- 8.2.; title: Oxytocin-the Cuddle Hormone? -- -- 8.3.; title: The Role of Temperature -- -- 8.4.; title: Cheating the Sensors -- -- 8.5.; title: Not a Cuddle Hormone -- -- 8.6.; title: The Neuromodulator -- -- 8.7.; title: Reward --; title: References -- -- ch. 9; title: The Chemistry of Baby Making -- -- 9.1.; title: Epigenetics -- -- 9.2.; title: Foetal Development -- -- 9.2.1.; title: The Three Hypotheses -- -- 9.2.2.; title: Mechanism -- -- 9.2.3.; title: Merging Hypotheses -- -- 9.3.; title: Epigenetic Inheritance -- -- 9.4.; title: Conclusion --; title: References --; title: Section 2: Concluding Remarks -- -- ch. 10; title: The Chemistry of Creative Intelligence -- -- 10.1.; title: The Birth of a Paradigm -- -- 10.2.; title: How Heritable is Creativity? -- -- 10.3.; title: The Validity of Heritability Studies -- -- 10.4.; title: The Price of Creativity -- -- 10.5.; title: Nature-Nurture Duality ---- 10.6̂; title: A Role for the Reward Network? --; title: References -- -- ch. 11; title: The Chemistry of Violence -- -- 11.1.; title: Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder -- -- 11.2.; title: What is a Gene Anyway? -- -- 11.3.; title: Brunner Syndrome -- -- 11.4.; title: Other Problems with the MAO A Gene -- -- 11.5.; title: A Role for the Epigenome -- -- 11.6.; title: A Role for the Reward Network -- -- 11.7.; title: Conclusion --; title: References -- -- ch. 12; title: The Chemistry of Dominance -- -- 12.1.; title: What is Dominance? -- -- 12.2.; title: Dominance and Status -- -- 12.3.; title: Heritability of Status -- -- 12.4.; title: Findings from Neuroscience -- -- 12.4.1.; title: Processing Information -- -- 12.5.; title: Cocaine Studies -- -- 12.6.; title: Serotonin -- -- 12.7.; title: The Winner Effect -- -- 12.7.1.; title: Nobel Legacies Boosting the Hypothesis for Reward Mediation of the Winner Effect -- -- 12.8.; title: Conclusion --; title: References --; title: Section 3: Concluding Remarks -- -- ch. 13; title: The Chemistry of Free Will -- -- 13.1.; title: Unease around Emerging Biology -- -- 13.1.1.; title: Dennett's Position -- -- 13.2.; title: Indeterminacŷ̂ĝ10.6̂; title: 13.3.; title: Pleasure and the Three Directives -- -- 13.4.; title: Breaking the Rules -- -- 13.4.1.; title: Sex and Drugs -- -- 13.4.2.; title: Buddhism -- -- 13.4.3.; title: So, Can We Break the Rules or Not? -- -- 13.5.; title: A Healthy Balance? -- -- 13.6.; title: More Answers from Buddhism -- -- 13.7.; title: What Should We Change? --; title: References --; title: Part 1: What Makes Reactions Happen --; title: Part 2: Life and Thermodynamics --; title: Part 3: Free Energy --; title: Part 4: A Truer Picture of Entropy --; title: Part 5: Energy Levels --; title: Part 6: The Relationship of Entropy with Energy Levels --; title: Part 7: The Hydrophobic Effect --; title: Part 8: Proteins, Specific Heat Capacity and the Heat Receptors --; title: Specific Heat Capacity and the Hydrophobic Effect --; title: Folding Proteins --; title: The Thermodynamics of Heat-detecting Ion Channels --; title: References.