Robert Provine: 3 books

Niesen, kitzeln, lachen, kratzen, gähnen, erbrechen, weinen, furzen, rülpsen – Menschen tun erstaunliche Dinge. In Gegenwart anderer kann uns das mitunter ganz schön in Verlegenheit bringen. Aber warum machen wir so etwas überhaupt? Robert Provine widmet sich ganz der Erforschung dieser merkwürdigen...

Do men and women laugh at the same things? Is laughter contagious? Has anyone ever really died laughing? Is laughing good for your health? Drawing upon ten years of research into this most common-yet complex and often puzzling-human phenomenon, Dr. Robert Provine, the world's leading scientific...

Provine boldly goes where other scientists seldom tread—in search of hiccups, coughs, yawns, sneezes, and other lowly, undignified, human behaviors. Our earthiest 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.