The Intelligent Genome: On the Origin of the Human Mind by Mutation and Selection

by Adolf Heschl

Book Overview

Do our genes determine our behavior? Do education and environment have any influence at all? Do humans occupy a unique position in evolution? To clarify these provoking questions, the author takes the reader on an ambitious and entertaining journey through a variety of scientific disciplines. In doing so, he creates an image of human evolution that says that our entire individual knowledge is determined - to the smallest detail - by phylogeny. " .....

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540671668
• ISBN13: 9783540671664
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 355 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"