Evolution of the Brain: Creation of the Self

Routledge (1989)
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Sir John Eccles, a distinguished scientist and Nobel Prize winner who has devoted his scientific life to the study of the mammalian brain, tells the story of how we came to be, not only as animals at the end of the hominid evolutionary line, but also as human persons possessed of reflective consciousness.

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9780415032247   0415032245   9781138133310   9780203976661   1138133310

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