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"Understanding human behavior from a biological perspective is the goal of behavioralneuroscience. The field incorporates biology, genetics, developmental biology,gerontology, psychopharmacology, cognitive psychology, and even sociology to create amultidisciplinary approach to understanding behavior. Behavioral neuroscientists consider questions such as, How does our evolutionary pastinfluence our behavior today? To what extent is our behavior controlled by our genes?How do our senses convert raw input into what we call reality? How do we regulate ourinternal processes to stay alive? Why are some substances so addictive? What does itmean to have a sex or gender identity? Why do I sleep (or not!), and why do I dream?Why can't I remember what I learned last year? Why do some people become depressed,anxious, or even have a total break from reality? Is beauty only a construction of mymind? These and thousands of other questions are the purview of behavioralneuroscience, one of the most exciting of human endeavors"--