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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 310 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
This definitive account of how the human brain has evolved explores the development of memory, language, consciousness, intelligence, neurodiversity, and emotions and examines what the future may hold for our brains.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
vii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This book "is both an environmental and a deep natural history of the coyote. It traces both the five-million-year-long biological story of an animal that has become the wolf in our backyards, as well as its cultural evolution from a preeminent spot in Native American religions to the hapless foil of the Road Runner. A deeply American tale, the story of the coyote in the American West and beyond is a sort of Manifest Destiny in reverse, with a pioneering...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Based on a wildly popular Atlantic article: an astonishing investigation into the world of microbes, and the myriad ways they control how other creatures -- including humans -- act, feel, and think As we are now discovering, parasites -- microbes that cannot thrive and reproduce without another organism as a host -- are shockingly sophisticated and extraordinarily powerful. In fact, a plethora of parasites affect our behavior in ways we have barely...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Revised and updated.
Physical Desc
xiv, 487 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"James D. Watson, the Nobel laureate whose pioneering work helped unlock the mystery of DNA's structure, charts the greatest scientific journey of our time, from the discovery of the double helix to today's controversies to what the future may hold. Updated to include new findings in gene editing, epigenetics, agricultural chemistry, as well as two entirely new chapters on personal genomics and cancer research. This is the most comprehensive and authoritative...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
790 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Why do we do the things we do? Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky attempts to answer that question as fully as possible, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky starts by examining the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy. The first category of explanation is the neurobiological...
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