The Triune Brain in Evolution
Title | The Triune Brain in Evolution PDF eBook |
Author | P.D. MacLean |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | 718 |
Release | 1990-01-31 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9780306431685 |
"This is MacLean's major work on the evolutionary development of the human brain. In its evolution the human forebrain expands along the lines of three basic formations that anatomical and biochemically reflect an ancestral relationship, respectively, to reptiles, early mammals, and late mammals. MacLean describes this as the Triune Brain."--Amazon.com viewed July 29, 2020
Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain
Title | Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Feldman Barrett |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
Total Pages | 197 |
Release | 2020-11-17 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0358157145 |
From the author of How Emotions Are Made, a myth-busting primer on the brain, in the tradition of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
A Triune Concept of the Brain and Behaviour
Title | A Triune Concept of the Brain and Behaviour PDF eBook |
Author | Paul D. MacLean |
Publisher | Published for the Ontario Mental Health Foundation by University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN |
Dragons of Eden
Title | Dragons of Eden PDF eBook |
Author | Carl Sagan |
Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | 289 |
Release | 1986-12-12 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0345346297 |
“A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen billion years ago, to the day before yesterday . . . It's a delight.”—The New York Times Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends—and their amazing links to recent discoveries. “How can I persuade every intelligent person to read this important and elegant book? . . . He talks about all kinds of things: the why of the pain of human childbirth . . . the reason for sleeping and dreaming . . . chimpanzees taught to communicate in deaf and dumb language . . . the definition of death . . . cloning . . . computers . . . intelligent life on other planets. . . . Fascinating . . . delightful.”—The Boston Globe “In some lost Eden where dragons ruled, the foundations of our intelligence were laid. . . . Carl Sagan takes us on a guided tour of that lost land. . . . Fascinating . . . entertaining . . . masterful.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Primate Brain Evolution
Title | Primate Brain Evolution PDF eBook |
Author | Este Armstrong |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | 333 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1468441485 |
Given the past decade's explosion of neurobiological and paleontologi cal data and their increasingly sophisticated analyses, interdisciplinary syntheses between these two broad disciplines are of value and interest to many different scientists. The collected papers of this volume will appeal to students of primate and hominid evolution, neuroscientists, sociobiolo gists, and other behaviorists who seek a better understanding of the substrates of primate, including human, behavior. Each species of living primates represents an endpoint in evolution, but comparative neurologists can produce approximate evolutionary se quences by careful analyses of representative series. Because nervous tissue does not fossilize, only a comparison of structures and functions among extant primates can be used to investigate the fine details of primate bra~n evolution. Paleoneurologists, who directly examine the fossil record via endocasts or cranial capacities of fossil skulls, can best provide information about gross details, such as changes in brain size or sulcal patterns, and determine when they occurred. Physical anthropologists and paleontologists have traditionally relied more on paleoneurology, whereas neuroscientists and psychologists have relied more on comparative neurology. This division has been a detriment to the advancement of these fields and to the conceptual bases of primate brain evolution. Both methods are important and a synthesis is desirable. To this end, two symposia were held in 1980--one at the meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthro pologists in Niagara Falls, U. S. A. , and one at the precongressional meeting of the International Primatological Society in Torino, Italy.
Coming Home to Story
Title | Coming Home to Story PDF eBook |
Author | Geoff Mead |
Publisher | Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2016-11-21 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1784504556 |
Stories take us into other worlds so that we may experience our own more deeply. Master storyteller Geoff Mead brings the reader inside the experience of telling and listening to a story. He shows how stories and storytelling engage our imaginations, strengthen communities and bring adventure and joy into our lives. The narrative is interspersed with consummate retellings of traditional tales from all over the world.
Beyond Evolutionary Psychology
Title | Beyond Evolutionary Psychology PDF eBook |
Author | George Ellis |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 231 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1107053684 |
This book presents a compelling unifying theory of which aspects of the brain are innate and which are not.