The Accidental Mind

How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Medical, Specialties, Internal Medicine, Neuroscience
Cover of the book The Accidental Mind by David J. Linden, Harvard University Press
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Author: David J. Linden ISBN: 9780674076617
Publisher: Harvard University Press Publication: November 1, 2012
Imprint: Harvard University Press Language: English
Author: David J. Linden
ISBN: 9780674076617
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication: November 1, 2012
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Linden sets the record straight about the construction of the human brain; rather than the “beautifully-engineered optimized device, the absolute pinnacle of design” portrayed in many dumbed-down text books, pop-science tomes, and education televisions programs, Linden’s organ is a complicated assembly of cobbled-together functionality that created the mind as a by-product of ad-hoc solutions to questions of survival. His guided tour of the glorious amalgam of “crummy parts” includes pit-stops in the histories and fundamentals of neurology, neural-psychology, physiology, molecular and cellular biology, and genetics.
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Linden sets the record straight about the construction of the human brain; rather than the “beautifully-engineered optimized device, the absolute pinnacle of design” portrayed in many dumbed-down text books, pop-science tomes, and education televisions programs, Linden’s organ is a complicated assembly of cobbled-together functionality that created the mind as a by-product of ad-hoc solutions to questions of survival. His guided tour of the glorious amalgam of “crummy parts” includes pit-stops in the histories and fundamentals of neurology, neural-psychology, physiology, molecular and cellular biology, and genetics.

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