Origins of the human brain /
Throughout history, humans have been fascinated by their origins. The evolutionary development of the human brain is of particular interest as human intellectual, emotional, and cultural capacities are considered to be unique among animals. This book brings together a group of eminent scientists fro...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
1995.
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| Series: | Fyssen Foundation symposium.
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Table of Contents:
- The first modern men / Bernard Vandermeersch
- Image of the human fossil brain : endocranial casts and meningeal vessels in young and adult subjects / Roger Saban
- Toward a synthetic theory of human brain evolution / Ralph L. Holloway
- The brain of the first hominids / Phillip V. Tobias
- Evolution of neocortical parcellation : the perspective from experimental neuroembryology / Pasko Rakic
- Brain, locomotion, diet, and culture : how a primate, by chance, became a man / Yves Coppens
- The human genome / Jean-Louis Mandel
- Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution / Rebecca L. Cann
- Mammalian homeo box genes : evolutionary and regulatory aspects of a network gene system / Frank H. Ruddle and Claudia Kappen
- Life in the fast lane : rapid cultural change and the human evolutionary process / Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson
- The origins of cultural diversity / Janusz K. Kozłowski
- Individuals and culture / Robert A. Hinde
- Man's intelligence as seen through paleolithic art / Henri Delporte
- The origins and evolution of writing / André Roch Lecours
- The origins of consciousness / Lawrence Weiskrantz
- The social mind / Bernardo A. Huberman
- Facts about human language relevant to its evolution / Steven Pinker
- Cause/induced motion : intention/spontaneous motion / David Premack.