Evolving Brains

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Henry Holt and Company, Mar 27, 2000 - Science - 240 pages
How did the human brain with all its manifold capacities evolve from basic functions in simple organisms that lived nearly a billion years ago? John Allman addresses this question in Evolving Brains, a provocative study of brain evolution that introduces readers to some of the most exciting developments in science in recent years.

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Evolving Brains
John Morgan Allman
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About the author (2000)

John Morgan Allman is Hixon Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology. He received his doctoral degree in anthropology and played a key role in the discovery that the visual cortex in primates comprises many areas that serve a multitude of functions. Dr. Allman received the Golden Brain Award from the Minerva Foundation for his research on how the brain represents visual information.

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TitleEvolving Brains
AuthorJohn Allman
Editionillustrated, revised
PublisherHenry Holt and Company, 2000
ISBN071676038X, 9780716760382
Length240 pages
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