The brain
big bangs, behaviors, and beliefs
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Author
Contributions
- Tattersall, Ian - Contributor
Publication
2012 - Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut
Language
English
Word Count
88,500 words, Guess
Page Count
354 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivebrainbigbangsbeh0000desa
- Internet Archivebrainbigbangsbeh0000desa_l1a8
- ISBN-139780300175226
- ISBN-100300175221
- Library of Congress Control Number2011044329
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number759174345
- Better World Books9780300175226
- Open LibraryOL25121631M
Classifications
- DDC612.8/2
- LCCBF311 .D466 2012
- LCCBF311.D466 2012
Description
After several million years of jostling for ecological space, only one survivor from a host of hominid species remains standing: us. Human beings are extraordinary creatures, and it is the unprecedented human brain that makes them so. In this book the authors present a step-by-step account of the evolution of the brain and nervous system. Tapping the very latest findings in evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and molecular biology, the authors explain how the cognitive gulf that separates us from all other living creatures could have occurred. They discuss the development and uniqueness of human consciousness, how human and nonhuman brains work, the roles of different nerve cells, the importance of memory and language in brain functions, and much more. Our brains, they conclude, are the product of a lengthy and supremely untidy history, an evolutionary process of many zigs and zags, that has accidentally resulted in a splendidly eccentric and creative product.
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