TY  - GEN
T1  - The brain : big bangs, behaviors, and beliefs
A1  - DeSalle, Rob
A2  - Tattersall, Ian
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 2012
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn794489367
AB  - 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.
OP  - 354
CN  - BF311 .D466 2012eb
SN  - 9780300175226
SN  - 0300175221
SN  - 9780300183566
SN  - 0300183569
KW  - Cognition.
KW  - Neurophysiology.
KW  - Brain : Evolution.
KW  - Neurophysiologie.
KW  - cognition.
KW  - MEDICAL : Neuroscience.
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY : Neuropsychology.
KW  - SCIENCE : Life Sciences : Developmental Biology.
KW  - Brain : Evolution
KW  - Cognition
KW  - Neurophysiology
KW  - Neurology & brain diseases
KW  - Cognitive psychology & cognition
KW  - Evolution
ER  -