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The Brain - book review

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John S. Allen is Research Scientist, Dornsite Cognitive Neuroscience Imaging Center and the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California. Drawing on recent techniques of imaging as well as insights and discoveries from paleoanthropology, microbiology, brain anatomy, and molecular genetics Allen provides an "exploration of the evolution of the human brain" as a biological organ, that is, " a collection of genes, cells and tissues that grows, eats, and ages, subject to the direct effects of natural selection and the phylogenetic constraints of its ancestry."

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1/7/2010 | archive