TY - BOOK AU - LeDoux,Joseph E. AU - Sorrentino,Caio Da Silva TI - The deep history of ourselves: the four-billion-year story of how we got conscious brains SN - 9780735223837 PY - 2019///] CY - [New York] PB - Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC KW - Consciousness KW - Brain KW - Evolution KW - Nervous system KW - Behavior evolution N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages [383]-400) and index; Preface -- Prologue: Why on earth...? -- Part 1: Our place in nature -- Part 2: Survival and behavior -- Part 3: Microbial life -- Part 4: The transition to complexity -- Part 5: ...And then animals invented neurons -- Part 6: Metazoan bread crumbs in the ocean -- Part 7: The vertebrates arrive -- Part 8: Ladders and trees in the vertebrate brain -- Part 9: The beginning of cognition -- Part 10: Surviving (and thriving) by thinking -- Part 11: Cognitive hardwire -- Part 12: Subjectivity -- Part 13: Consciousness through the looking glass of memory -- Part 14: The shallows -- Part 15: Emotional subjectivity -- Epilogue: Can we survive our self-conscious selves? -- Appendix: Timeline of the history of life N2 - "Renowned neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux digs into the natural history of life on earth to provide a new perspective on the similarities between us and our ancestors in deep time. This page-turning survey of the whole of terrestrial evolution sheds new light on how nervous systems evolved in animals, how the brain developed, and what it means to be human." --Amazon ER -