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Chimeras and consciousness : evolution of the sensory self /

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This title begins the inquiry into the evolution of the collective sensitivities of life. Scientist-scholars from a range of fields - including biochemistry, cell biology, history of science, family therapy, genetics, microbial ecology, and primatology - trace the emergence and evolution of consciou...

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Other Authors: Margulis, Lynn, 1938-2011 (Editor), Asikainen, Celeste A. (Editor), Krumbein, Wolfgang E. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.
©2011
Subjects:
Consciousness.
Sense organs > Evolution.
Symbiogenesis.
Brain > Evolution.
Self-consciousness (Awareness)
Evolution (Biology)
ENVIRONMENT/General
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This title begins the inquiry into the evolution of the collective sensitivities of life. Scientist-scholars from a range of fields - including biochemistry, cell biology, history of science, family therapy, genetics, microbial ecology, and primatology - trace the emergence and evolution of consciousness.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xviii, 321 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), color maps
ISBN:0262312468
9780262312462
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262015394.001.0001