The Lives of the Brain : Human Evolution and the Organ of Mind / John S. Allen.
Allen, John S., author.
2012
QP376 .A4225 2012
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Title The Lives of the Brain : Human Evolution and the Organ of Mind / John S. Allen.
Author Allen, John S., author.
ISBN 9780674053496
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674053496
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2009
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (352 p.)
Item Number 10.4159/9780674053496 doi
Call Number QP376 .A4225 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 612.82
Summary Though we have other distinguishing characteristics (walking on two legs, for instance, and relative hairlessness), the brain and the behavior it produces are what truly set us apart from the other apes and primates. And how this three-pound organ composed of water, fat, and protein turned a mammal species into the dominant animal on earth today is the story John S. Allen seeks to tell.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Figures
1. Introduction
2. The Human Brain in Brief
3. Brain Size
4. The Functional Evolution of the Brain
5. The Plastic Brain
6. The Molecular Evolution of the Brain
7. The Evolution of Feeding Behavior
8. The Aging Brain
9. Language and Brain Evolution
10. Optimism and the Evolution of the Brain
References
Acknowledgments
Index

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