What Is Special about the Human Brain?

by Richard Passingham

Book Overview

It is plausible that evolution could have created the human skeleton, but it is hard to believe that it created the human mind. Yet, in six or seven million years evolution came up with Homo sapiens, a creature unlike anything the world had ever known. The mental gap between man and ape is immense, and yet evolution bridged that gap in so short a space of time. Since the brain is the organ of the mind, it is natural to assume that during the evolution...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199230137
• ISBN13: 9780199230136
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"