The Runaway Brain: The Evolution of Human Uniqueness - Hardcover

Wills, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0465031315 ISBN 13: 9780465031313

Publisher: Basic Books, 1993

Synopsis

Traces the evolution of the human brain in a most pleasing and understandable manner. Wills manages to organize an immense amount of detail and theory into an easy flowing and interesting scientific detective story. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

About this title

Synopsis:

This work brings together new research from paleontology, genetics and neurobiology to explain the runaway evolution of the human brain. It debunks the popular notion that people arose from a single Eve. It also considers "politically correct" revisionist theories of human prehistory. Christopher Wills delves deeply into the arguments that man's recent evolution has been driven by a "feedback loop" between the genes that control brain development and the culture that humans have invented. The book examines both the scientific and political ramifications of the two current competing models for recent human evolution - the "multiple origins" and the "Noah's Ark" models - and shows how genetic data close the gap between them. Christopher Wills is the author of "The Wisdom of the Genes" and "Exxons, Introns and Talking Genes".

About the Author:

Christopher Wills is professor of biology at the University of California, San Diego.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0465031315
• ISBN 13: 9780465031313
• Binding: Hardcover