The birth of the mind : how a tiny number of genes creates the complexities of human thought /
In The Birth of the Mind, award-winning cognitive scientist Gary Marcus irrevocably alters the nature vs. nurture debate by linking the findings of the Human Genome Project to the development of the brain. Scientists have long struggled to understand how a tiny number of genes could contain the inst...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
2004.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Table of contents Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | In The Birth of the Mind, award-winning cognitive scientist Gary Marcus irrevocably alters the nature vs. nurture debate by linking the findings of the Human Genome Project to the development of the brain. Scientists have long struggled to understand how a tiny number of genes could contain the instructions for building the human brain, arguably the most complex device in the known universe. Synthesizing up-to-the-minute research with his own original findings on child development, Marcus is the first to resolve this apparent contradiction. Vibrantly written and completely accessible to the lay reader, The Birth of the Mind will forever change the way we think about our origins and ourselves. The first book to show precisely how genes build the wonders of the human brain, and why the Human Genome Project could radically alter our view of the world. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 278 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-257) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0465044050 9780465044054 0465044069 9780465044061 |