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BL
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| Record Number
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1018400
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b772770
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| Main Entry
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Wills, Christopher.
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| Title & Author
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The runaway brain : : the evolution of human uniqueness /\ Christopher Wills.
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| Publication Statement
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London :: HarperCollins,, 1994.
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xxiv, 358 pages :: [8] pages of plates
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| ISBN
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0002552752
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: 9780002552752
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-329) and index.
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| Contents
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FOUR: The brain -- Escape from stupidworld -- The master juggler -- A sponge for knowledge -- Reining in the runaway?
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ONE: The dilemmas -- Eve's companions -- An obsession with race -- An obsession with God
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THREE: The genes -- Two kinds of Geneticist -- Two kinds of gene -- Pulling the plug -- The love song of the fruit fly and other amazing gene stories
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TWO: The bones -- The crystal brain -- The birth canal of our services -- The latest steps
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| Abstract
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You might not suspect it, but we are currently living through a revolution in scientific knowledge. What we know about the human brain's workings and about the earliest history of our distant humanoid ancestors changes almost weekly. This book looks at current scientific theory.
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Brain-- Evolution.
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Human evolution.
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Brain-- Evolution.
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Human evolution.
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Evolutie.
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Hersenen.
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| Dewey Classification
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573.2
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| LC Classification
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QP376.W56 1994
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| NLM classification
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42.85bcl
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