Overview
'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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Author: Joseph Jebelli
Publisher: John Murray Press
Imprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 14.80cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 22.80cm
Weight: 0.380kg
ISBN: 9781529300154
ISBN 10: 1529300150
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 13 April 2023
Audience:
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Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
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 here -- David Eagleman, bestselling author of Livewired and Incognito Jebelli writes with aplomb and an eye for arresting asides... This is a slim, accessible and thought-provoking book - a springboard to further reading * The Times * an eye for thrilling details makes his approachable, sometimes provocative book an aptly mind-expanding experience for the curious reader * The Mail on Sunday *
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 here -- David Eagleman, bestselling author of Livewired and Incognito Jebelli writes with aplomb and an eye for arresting asides... This is a slim, accessible and thought-provoking book - a springboard to further reading * The Times *
Author Information
Joseph Jebelli is a neuroscientist and a writer. He received a PhD in neuroscience from University College London for his work on the cell biology of neurodegenerative diseases, then worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Washington, Seattle. His much acclaimed first book, In Pursuit of Memory, was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize and longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize. He lives in London.
