Description
This revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness. Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a wealth of insights into the significance of symbolic thinking: from the co-evolutionary exchange between language and brains over two million years of hominid evolution to the ethical repercussions that followed man's newfound access to other people's thoughts and emotions.
Informing these insights is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes underlie the brain's development and function as well as its evolution. In contrast to much contemporary neuroscience that treats the brain as no more or less than a computer, Deacon provides a new clarity of vision into the mechanism of mind. It injects a renewed sense of adventure into the experience of being human.
Author: Terrence W. Deacon
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/01/1998
Pages: 528
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.40d
ISBN13: 9780393317541
ISBN10: 0393317544
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Life Sciences | Developmental Biology
- Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects
- Social Science | Anthropology | Physical
Informing these insights is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes underlie the brain's development and function as well as its evolution. In contrast to much contemporary neuroscience that treats the brain as no more or less than a computer, Deacon provides a new clarity of vision into the mechanism of mind. It injects a renewed sense of adventure into the experience of being human.
Author: Terrence W. Deacon
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/01/1998
Pages: 528
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.40d
ISBN13: 9780393317541
ISBN10: 0393317544
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Life Sciences | Developmental Biology
- Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects
- Social Science | Anthropology | Physical