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  • The Botanic Age

    Planting the Seeds of Human Evolution

    de Dean Falk ...
    How and why did humans get to be so clever and thoughtful? The beginning of the Stone Age, marked by the invention of stone tools, has traditionally dominated discussions about the origin and evolution of human intelligence. However, feminist anthropologists have long theorized that the first tools were actually nests, slings, and baskets that would not have survived in the archaeological record ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Geeks, Genes, and the Evolution of Asperger Syndrome

    de Dean Falk, Eve Penelope Schofield ...
    In this unusual book an evolutionary anthropologist and her coauthor/granddaughter, who has Asperger syndrome, examine the emergence and spread of Asperger syndrome and other forms of high-functioning autism. The authors speak to readers with autism, parents, teachers, clinicians, psychologists, psychiatrists, other health-care providers, autism researchers, evolutionary biologists, geneticists, ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Finding Our Tongues

    Mothers, Infants, and the Origins of Language

    de Dean Falk ...
    Scientists have long theorized that abstract, symbolic thinking evolved to help humans negotiate such classically male activities as hunting, tool making, and warfare, and eventually developed into spoken language. In Finding Our Tongues, Dean Falk overturns this established idea, offering a daring new theory that springs from a simple observation: parents all over the world, in all cultures, talk ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The Fossil Chronicles

    How Two Controversial Discoveries Changed Our View of Human Evolution

    de Dean Falk ...
    Two discoveries of early human relatives, one in 1924 and one in 2003, radically changed scientific thinking about our origins. Dean Falk, a pioneer in the field of human brain evolution, offers this fast-paced insider’s account of these discoveries, the behind-the-scenes politics embroiling the scientists who found and analyzed them, and the academic and religious controversies they generated. ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Evolution of the Primate Brain

    From Neuron to Behavior

    de Michel A. Hofman, Dean Falk ...
    Series Libro 195 - Progress in Brain Research
    This volume of Progress in Brain Research provides a synthetic source of information about state-of-the-art research that has important implications for the evolution of the brain and cognition in primates, including humans. This topic requires input from a variety of fields that are developing at an unprecedented pace: genetics, developmental neurobiology, comparative and functional neuroanatomy ... Leer más

    $251.99 USD

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  • Masters of the Planet

    The Search for Our Human Origins

    de Ian Tattersall ...
    Series series MacSci
    50,000 years ago – merely a blip in evolutionary time – our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their own precursors had been doing for millions of years. Yet something about our species separated it from the pack, and led to its survival while the rest became extinct. So just what was it that allowed Homo sapiens to become Masters of the ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

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  • The Other Side of Normal

    How Biology Is Providing the Clues to Unlock the Secrets of Normal and Abnormal Behavior

    de Jordan Smoller ...
    A Harvard psychiatrist uses biology, genetics, psychology, and advances in molecular neuroscience and neuroimaging to examine what it means to be normal."Move over Oliver Sacks—I couldn't put this fascinating book down! Path-breaking and witty, as entertaining as it is informative, The Other Side of Normal is filled with insights into why we behave as we do and how biology determines so much of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Lone Survivors

    How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth

    de Chris Stringer ...
    A top researcher proposes a controversial new theory of human evolution in a book "combining the thrill of a novel with a remarkable depth of perspective" ( Nature).In this groundbreaking and engaging work of science, world-renowned paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer sets out a new theory of humanity's origin, challenging both the multiregionalists (who hold that modern humans developed from ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

  • Anxious

    Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety

    de Joseph LeDoux ...
    **“[Anxious] helps to explain and prevent the kinds of debilitating anxieties all of us face in this increasingly stressful world.” —Daniel J. Levitin, author of The Organized Mind and This Is Your Brain On MusicA comprehensive and accessible exploration of anxiety, from a leading neuroscientist and the author of Synaptic Self**Collectively, anxiety disorders are our most prevalent psychiatric ... Leer más

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  • Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

    de Frans de Waal ...
    A New York Times bestseller: "A passionate and convincing case for the sophistication of nonhuman minds." —Alison Gopnik, The AtlanticHailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? explores the oddities and complexities of animal cognition—in crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, chimpanzees, and bonobos—to reveal how smart animals really are, and how we’ve ... Leer más

    $12.39 USD

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  • The Emotional Brain

    The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life

    de Joseph Ledoux ...
    What happens in our brains to make us feel fear, love, hate, anger, joy? Do we control our emotions, or do they control us? Do animals have emotions? How can traumatic experiences in early childhood influence adult behavior, even though we have no conscious memory of them? In The Emotional Brain, Joseph LeDoux investigates the origins of human emotions and explains that many exist as part of ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • How To Think Like a Neandertal

    de Thomas Wynn, Frederick L. Coolidge ...
    There have been many books, movies, and even TV commercials featuring Neandertals--some serious, some comical. But what was it really like to be a Neandertal? How were their lives similar to or different from ours? In How to Think Like a Neandertal, archaeologist Thomas Wynn and psychologist Frederick L. Coolidge team up to provide a brilliant account of the mental life of Neandertals, drawing on ... Leer más

    $17.09 USD