Full name: The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates The Complexities of Human Thought

Author: Gary Marcus Year: 1963 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Psychology, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780465044061 0465044069

In The Birth of the Mind, award-winning cognitive scientist Gary Marcus irrevocably alters the nature vs. nurture debate by linking the findings of the Human Genome Project to the development of the brain. Scientists have long struggled to understand how a tiny number of genes could contain the instructions for building the human brain, arguably the most complex device in the known universe. Synthesizing up-to-the-minute research with his own original findings on child development, Marcus is the first to resolve this apparent contradiction. Vibrantly written and completely accessible to the lay reader, The Birth of the Mind will forever change the way we think about our origins and ourselves. Similar books: Making up the Mind by Chris Frith Human by Michael S. Gazzaniga The Ravenous Brain by Daniel Bor Right Hand, Left Hand by Chris McManus 50 Genetics Ideas You Really Need to Know by Mark Henderson The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul by Francis Crick The Accidental Mind by David J. Linden Kluge by Gary Marcus Phantoms in the Brain by V. S. Ramachandran Nature via Nurture by Matt Ridley An Alchemy of Mind by Diane Ackerman Mapping the Mind by Rita Carter Self Comes to Mind by Antonio Damasio How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker A Universe of Consciousness by Gerald M. Edelman Being Mortal by Atul Gawande Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon Next of Kin by Roger Fouts DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman The Shallows by Nicholas Carr