The Deep History of Ourselves by Joseph Ledoux

The Deep History of Ourselves by Joseph Ledoux

Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms to the complexity of animals and human beings today

Renowned neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux digs into the natural history of life on earth to provide a new perspective on the similarities between us and our ancestors in deep time. This page-turning survey of the whole of terrestrial evolution sheds new light on how nervous systems evolved in animals, how the brain developed, and what it means to be human.

In The Deep History of Ourselves, LeDoux argues that the key to understanding human behavior lies in viewing evolution through the prism of the first living organisms. By tracking the chain of the evolutionary timeline he shows how even the earliest single-cell organisms had to solve the same problems we and our cells have to solve each day. Along the way, LeDoux explores our place in nature, how the evolution of nervous systems enhanced the ability of organisms to survive and thrive, and how the emergence of what we humans understand as consciousness made our greatest and most horrendous achievements as a species possible.

Professor of Neural Science, Psychology, Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at New York University, Joseph LeDoux is the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science. He is the director of NYU's Emotional Brain Institute and the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, as well as the Deputy Director of the Max Planck-NYU Center for Language, Music, and Emotion. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Anxious, Synaptic Self, and The Emotional Brain are among LeDoux's publications, and he is a member of the folkrock band the Amygdaloids and the acoustic duo So We Are. In Brooklyn, New York, he lives with his wife Nancy Princenthal.

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ISBN 13	9780735223851
ISBN 10	0735223858
Titel	The Deep History of Ourselves
Autor	Joseph Ledoux
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Prentice Hall Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2020-08-25
Seitenanzahl	432
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