The brain : big bangs, behaviors, and beliefs /

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 ev...

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Autor principal: DeSalle, Rob (Autor)
Altres autors: Tattersall, Ian
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2012.
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1njm5k
Taula de continguts:
  • The nature of science : our brains at work
  • The nitty-gritty of the nervous system
  • Hanging our brains on the tree of life
  • Making sense of senses
  • Processing information
  • Emotions and memory
  • Brain EvoDevo
  • Words and music by ...
  • Decisions, behaviors, and beliefs
  • The human brain and cognitive evolution.