Liars, Lovers, and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We AreHarper Collins, 2003 M09 23 - 352 pages This book combines cutting-edge findings in neuroscience with examples from history and the headlines to introduce the new science of cultural biology, born of advances in brain imaging, computer modeling, and genetics. Doctors Quartz and Sejnowski show how both our noblest and darkest traits are rooted in brain systems so ancient that we share them with insects. They then demystify the dynamic engagement between brain and world that makes us something far beyond the sum of our parts. The authors show how our humanity unfolds in precise stages as brain and world engage on increasingly complex levels. Their discussion embraces shaping forces as ancient as climate change over millennia and events as recent as the terrorism and heroism of September 11, and offers intriguing answers to some of our most enduring questions, including why we live together, love, kill -- and sometimes lay down our lives for others. |
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... changes to developmental genes.20 Thus , uncovering the mystery of who we are requires understanding how you become who you are as your brain develops over the course of a lifetime . Understanding these themes , however , has proven to ...
... change in the probabilities that generated the sequences , the reactions times increased , again analogous to earlier results . Berns and his colleagues , however , could see inside subjects ' brains to watch changes in brain activity ...
... change in differ- ent species . Moreover , compared with the elegant simplicity of the structure of DNA , the tangled wiring in the brain is a nightmare . It was a surprise to imagine that Crick could find theoretical inspiration in ...
... change his thinking habits . He was able to think through physics problems while soaking in long hot baths , but when he thought about biology problems , he had to get out of the bath every few minutes to look up a fact . Evolution has ...
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