The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable

The Human Advantage

A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable

2016 • 271 pages

Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Humans Rule! -- 2 Brain Soup -- 3 Got Brains? -- 4 Not All Brains Are Made the Same -- 5 Remarkable, but Not Extraordinary -- 6 The Elephant in the Room -- 7 What Cortical Expansion? -- 8 A Body Matter? -- 9 So How Much Does It Cost? -- 10 Brains or Brawn: You Can't Have Both -- 11 Thank Cooking for Your Neurons -- 12 ... But Plenty of Neurons Aren't Enough -- Epilogue: Our Place in Nature -- Appendixes -- Notes -- References -- Index

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