Brain, Behaviour and Evolution

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Methuen & Company (1979)
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It has always concentrated upon man, and usually the comparative approach has not been used to study the evolution of behaviour, but in the hope that ...

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Consciousness, free will and personal identity.Roger W. Sperry
The anatomy of the vertebrate nervous system: an evolutionary and developmental perspective.Christopher H. Yeo

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