The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains 0735223831 , 978-0735223837

A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms to the complexity of

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The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
0735223831 , 978-0735223837

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human new perspective on the similarities between us and our ancestors in deep time

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