The Deep History of Ourselves The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains

Joseph E. LeDoux (author), Caio Da Silva Sorrentino (illustrator)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Renowned neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux digs into the natural history of life on earth to provide a new perspective on the similarities between us and our ancestors in deep time. This page-turning survey of the whole of terrestrial evolution sheds new light on how nervous systems evolved in animals, how the brain developed, and what it means to be human.

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Viking

Viking publishes the widest possible range of literary fiction and non-fiction. Our fiction list includes John le Carré, Nick Hornby, Will Self, Colm Tóibín, Nicole Krauss, William Trevor, Catherine O' Flynn, Jonathan Coe, and Joshua Ferris. In non-fiction, the range covers current affairs, history, biography, memoir, narrative non-fiction, music and sport. Our authors include Antony Beevor, Andrew Rawnsley, Mark Bostridge, Sarah Bradford, Saul David, Catherine Bailey, Lynn Barber, Claire Tomalin and John Stubbs.

Book information

ISBN:	9780735223837
Publisher:	Penguin Random House Group
Imprint:	Viking
Pub date:	27 Aug 2019
DEWEY:	612.823
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	432
Weight:	628g
Height:	160mm
Width:	252mm
Spine width:	31mm