The Brain - Big Bangs, Behaviors, and Beliefs

Informationen zum Autor Rob DeSalle is curator! Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics! American Museum of Natural History! where he has curated several special exhibitions! including Brain: The Inside Story. Ian Tattersall is curator emeritus! Division of Anthropology! American Museum of Natural History! and with DeSalle co-curated the Hall of Human Origins at AMNH. The authors live in New York City. Klappentext An accessible, step-by-step account of the evolution of the brain and the nervous system, which explains how the cognitive gulf that separates humans from all other living creatures could have occurred. Zusammenfassung After several million years of jostling for ecological space! only one survivor from a host of hominid species remains standing: us. Human beings are extraordinary creatures! and it is the unprecedented human brain that makes them so. This book presents step-by-step account of the evolution of the brain and nervous system.

Product details

• Authors: Rob DeSalle, Rob Tattersall Desalle, Rob; Tattersall DeSalle, Ian Tattersall, Patricia J. Wynne
• Assisted by: Patricia J. Wynne (Illustration)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2014
• EAN: 9780300205725
• ISBN: 978-0-300-20572-5
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 225 mm x 25 mm
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)