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Origins of the human brain / edited by Jean-Pierre Changeux and Jean Chavaillon.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: A Fyssen Foundation symposiumPublication details: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.Description: xiii, 321 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0198523076 (hardback)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QP376 .O75 1995
Contents:
The first modern men / Bernard Vandermeersch -- Image of the human fossil brain : endocranial casts and meningeal vessels in young and adult subjects / Roger Saban -- Toward a synthetic theory of human brain evolution / Ralph L. Holloway -- The brain of the first hominids / Phillip V. Tobias -- Evolution of neocortical parcellation : the perspective from experimental neuroembryology / Pasko Rakic -- Brain, locomotion, diet, and culture : how a primate, by chance, became a man / Yves Coppens -- The human genome / Jean-Louis Mandel -- Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution / Rebecca L. Cann -- Mammalian homeo box genes : evolutionary and regulatory aspects of a network gene system / Frank H. Ruddle and Claudia Kappen -- Life in the fast lane : rapid cultural change and the human evolutionary process / Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson -- The origins of cultural diversity / Janusz K. Kozłowski -- Individuals and culture / Robert A. Hinde -- Man's intelligence as seen through paleolithic art / Henri Delporte -- The origins and evolution of writing / André Roch Lecours -- The origins of consciousness / Lawrence Weiskrantz -- The social mind / Bernardo A. Huberman -- Facts about human language relevant to its evolution / Steven Pinker -- Cause/induced motion : intention/spontaneous motion / David Premack.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks QP376.O75 1995 1 Available 33710000742135

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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The first modern men / Bernard Vandermeersch -- Image of the human fossil brain : endocranial casts and meningeal vessels in young and adult subjects / Roger Saban -- Toward a synthetic theory of human brain evolution / Ralph L. Holloway -- The brain of the first hominids / Phillip V. Tobias -- Evolution of neocortical parcellation : the perspective from experimental neuroembryology / Pasko Rakic -- Brain, locomotion, diet, and culture : how a primate, by chance, became a man / Yves Coppens -- The human genome / Jean-Louis Mandel -- Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution / Rebecca L. Cann -- Mammalian homeo box genes : evolutionary and regulatory aspects of a network gene system / Frank H. Ruddle and Claudia Kappen -- Life in the fast lane : rapid cultural change and the human evolutionary process / Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson -- The origins of cultural diversity / Janusz K. Kozłowski -- Individuals and culture / Robert A. Hinde -- Man's intelligence as seen through paleolithic art / Henri Delporte -- The origins and evolution of writing / André Roch Lecours -- The origins of consciousness / Lawrence Weiskrantz -- The social mind / Bernardo A. Huberman -- Facts about human language relevant to its evolution / Steven Pinker -- Cause/induced motion : intention/spontaneous motion / David Premack.