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" Origins of the human brain / "
edited by Jean-Pierre Changeux and Jean Chavaillon.
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BL
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623964
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Origins of the human brain /\ edited by Jean-Pierre Changeux and Jean Chavaillon.
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Oxford :: Clarendon Press ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1995.
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A Fyssen Foundation symposium
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xiii, 321 p. :: ill. ;; 25 cm.
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0198523076 (hardback)
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: 9780198523079 (hardback)
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: 0198523904
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: 9780198523901
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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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.
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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 from the fields of anthropology, psychology, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. Their views provide a starting point for a debate based on the most recent scientific data relating to the evolutionary origins of the human brain. The sciences of the past (palaeontology, archaeology) are joined with the sciences of the present and future (molecular neurobiology, population genetics) to produce a lively, informative, and valuable synthesis.
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Brain-- Evolution, Congresses.
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Brain-- anatomy histology.
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Biological Evolution.
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Cultural Evolution.
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Genetics, Population.
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Intelligence.
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QP376.O75 1995
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Changeux, Jean-Pierre.
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Chavaillon, Jean.
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