How the mind changed

Jebelli, Joseph

£12.99

No other life form on the planet has generated a brain like ours. How did a bundle of cells weighing just 1.2 kg give rise to conscious, self-aware beings capable of understanding time, language, mathematics and music, of exploring outer space and sequencing their own DNA? The answer to such questions is a seven million year saga. ‘How the Mind Changed’ is the story of human brain evolution: a sweeping natural history. Beginning with the first primate brain and the rise of our present-day, large human brain, it will describe the remarkable origin of our species’ most mysterious organ, how it has developed, and how it will change in the future. To study the brain is to study the essence of what makes us human.

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Publish Date: 13/04/2023
ISBN: 9781529300154 Category: Tags: ,

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‘Thrilling, provocative and mind-expanding’ Mail on Sunday

‘Masterful and illuminating’ DAVID EAGLEMAN

Dr Joseph Jebelli takes us on a seven-million-year journey through our own heads, drawing on insights from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, psychology, and philosophyto reveal how our brain’s evolution turned us into Homo sapiens and beyond.

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‘Written with aplomb and an eye for arresting asides . . . This is an accessible and thought-provoking book’ The Times

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Weight 380 g
Dimensions 228 × 148 × 26 mm
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Cover

Paperback

Pages

vii, 310

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

612.82 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K