| Description |
xxii, 253 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 221-240. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Ethology and evolution -- The throwing Madonna -- The lovable cat: mimicry strikes again -- Woman the toolmaker? -- Did throwing stones lead to bigger brains? -- The ratchets of social evolution -- Neurophysiology -- The computer as metaphor in neurobiology -- Last year in Jerusalem -- Computing without nerve impulses -- Aplysia, the hare of the ocean -- Left brain, right brain: science or the new phrenology? -- What to do about tic douloureux -- The Woodrow Wilson story -- Thinking clearly about schizophrenia -- Of cancer pain, magic bullets and humor -- Neurolinguistics -- Linguistics and the brain's buffer -- Probling language cortex: the second wave -- Prospects -- The creation myth, updated: a scenario for humankind |
| Subject |
Brain.
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Brain. |
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Human behavior.
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Human behavior. |
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Neurolinguistics.
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Neurolinguistics. |
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Women.
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Women. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| ISBN |
0070096651 |
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0070096643 paperback |
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