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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| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2012.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1njm5k |
Table of Contents:
- 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.