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The deep history of ourselves : the four-billion-year story of how we got conscious brains / Joseph LeDoux ; illustrations by Caio da Silva Sorrentino.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: [New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019]Description: xviii, 412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780735223837
  • 0735223831
Subject(s):
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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.
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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.

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.

"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.

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