Evolving Brains ("Scientific American" Library) - Softcover

Allman, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 071676038X ISBN 13: 9780716760382

Verlag: Scientific American Library, 2000

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Reseña del editor:

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.

Biografía del autor:

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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• Verlag: Scientific American Library
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 071676038X
• ISBN 13: 9780716760382
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256