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How the Mind Changed: A Human History of our Evolving Brain
Joseph Jebelli
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'Thrilling, provocative and mind-expanding' Mail on Sunday
'Masterful and illuminating' DAVID EAGLEMAN
Dr Joseph Jebelli takes us on a seven-million-year journey through our own heads, drawing on insights from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, psychology, and philosophyto reveal how our brain's evolution turned us into Homo sapiens and beyond.
Discover how memory has almost nothing to do with the past; magic mushroom use might be responsible for our intelligence; and how autism teaches us hugely positive lessons about our past and future.
A single mutation is all it takes.
'Written with aplomb and an eye for arresting asides . . . This is an accessible and thought-provoking book' The Times
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How did humans develop such a runaway mind? Joseph Jebelli masterfully illuminates the neurobiological road by which we arrived, and where it might reach from hereAn eye for thrilling details makes his approachable, sometimes provocative book an aptly mind-expanding experience for the curious reader - The Mail on SundayPraise for JOSEPH JEBELLI - -Wonderfully clear, vividly readable and comprehensive - The TimesA fascinating quest and a moving, sober and forensic study of the past, present and future of Alzheimer's. - ROBERT McCRUM, ObserverA riveting debut... the very human story of the disease that is now an epidemic - Bookseller, Science Book of the Month
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