The Accidental Mind
How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God
Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Medical, Specialties, Internal Medicine, Neuroscience
| Author: | David J. Linden | ISBN: | 9780674076617 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press | Publication: | November 1, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | David J. Linden |
| ISBN: | 9780674076617 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Publication: | November 1, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Language: | English |
Linden sets the record straight about the construction of the human brain; rather than the “beautifully-engineered optimized device, the absolute pinnacle of design” portrayed in many dumbed-down text books, pop-science tomes, and education televisions programs, Linden’s organ is a complicated assembly of cobbled-together functionality that created the mind as a by-product of ad-hoc solutions to questions of survival. His guided tour of the glorious amalgam of “crummy parts” includes pit-stops in the histories and fundamentals of neurology, neural-psychology, physiology, molecular and cellular biology, and genetics.
Linden sets the record straight about the construction of the human brain; rather than the “beautifully-engineered optimized device, the absolute pinnacle of design” portrayed in many dumbed-down text books, pop-science tomes, and education televisions programs, Linden’s organ is a complicated assembly of cobbled-together functionality that created the mind as a by-product of ad-hoc solutions to questions of survival. His guided tour of the glorious amalgam of “crummy parts” includes pit-stops in the histories and fundamentals of neurology, neural-psychology, physiology, molecular and cellular biology, and genetics.
