Human: The Science Behind What Makes Your Brain Unique (Paperback)

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• Format: Paperback   Learn more about the Paperback format using Tower WIKI.
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Number of Pages: 352
• ISBN: 0060892897
• WAPI (Tower ID): 112522236
• Release Date: July 1, 2009
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Draws on current understandings in brain science to explore key questions about the nature of being human, offering insight into unique evolutionary developments that were wholly different from humanity's predecessors while discussing such topics as language, consciousness, and artificial intelligence. 30,000 first printing. Reprint.

One of the world's leading neuroscientists explores how best to understand the human condition by examining the biological, psychological, and highly social nature of our species within the social context of our lives.

What happened along the evolutionary trail that made humans so unique? In his widely accessible style, Michael Gazzaniga looks to a broad range of studies to pinpoint the change that made us thinking, sentient humans, different from our predecessors.

Neuroscience has been fixated on the life of the psychological self for the past fifty years, focusing on the brain systems underlying language, memory, emotion, and perception. What it has not done is consider the stark reality that most of the time we humans are thinking about social processes, comparing ourselves to and estimating the intentions of others. In "Human," Gazzaniga explores a number of related issues, including what makes human brains unique, the importance of language and art in defining the human condition, the nature of human consciousness, and even artificial intelligence.

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