The Symbolic Species : The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain

Terrence W Deacon
W. W. Norton & Company
9780393317541
0-393-31754-4

Informing these insights is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes underlie the brain's development and function as well as its evolution. In contrast to much contemporary neuroscience that treats.

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the brain as no more or less than a computer, Deacon provides a new clarity of vision into the mechanism of mind. It injects a renewed sense of adventure into the experience of being human.