Evolution of the brain : creation of the self
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Evolution of the brain : creation of the self
Routledge, 1989
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780415026000
Description
Sir John Eccles, distinguished scientist and Nobel prize winner, tells the story of how we came to be. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of biological and cultural evolution, neurological science, education, anthropology, philosophy, religion.
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: pbk ISBN 9780415032247
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Sir John Eccles, a distinguished scientist and Nobel Prize winner who has devoted his scientific life to the study of the mammalian brain, tells the story of how we came to be, not only as animals at the end of the hominid evolutionary line, but also as human persons possessed of reflective consciousness.
Table of Contents
- Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. Biological evolution. The general story of human evolution. Evolution of hominid brain: bipedality
- agility. Linguistic communication in hominid evolution. Cerebral limbic system in relation to the evolution of the reproductive and emotional systems. Visuo-motor evolution: artistic creativity. Evolution of learning and memory. The mind-brain problem in evolution. The self and its brain. The human person. Addendum. References. Subject index and Glossary.
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