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Evolving Brains ("Scientific American" Library)
Author(s): John Allman (Author)
- Publisher: Scientific American Library
- Publication Date: 15 Jan. 1999
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780716750765
- ISBN-13: 0716750767
Book Description
Neurophysiologist John Allman draws on the wealth of new findings in molecular genetics and paleoanthropology to trace the history of brain evolution from the simplest of animals to human beings. In doing so, he explores the forces and mechanisms that have influenced evolutionary development, including climatic change, the energy requirements of large brains and the invention of the extended family in early humans.
