Evolution of the Brain: Creation of the SelfSir John Eccles, a distinguished scientist and Nobel Prize winner who has devoted his scientific life to the study of the mammalian brain, tells the story of how we came to be, not only as animals at the end of the hominid evolutionary line, but also as human persons possessed of reflective consciousness. |
Contents
Chapter one Biological evolution | 1 |
Chapter two The general story of human evolution | 12 |
bipedality agility | 39 |
Chapter four Linguistic communication in hominid evolution | 73 |
Chapter five Cerebral limbic system in relation to the evolution of the reproductive and emotional systems | 100 |
artistic creativity | 121 |
Chapter seven Evolution of learning and memory | 146 |
Chapter eight The mindbrain problem in evolution | 179 |
Chapter nine Creation of the self and its brain | 203 |
Chapter ten The human person | 227 |
Reflections and imaginings | 251 |
Abbreviations used in References | 256 |
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