THE DEEP HISTORY OF OURSELVES: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains

Renowned neuroscientist LeDoux traces the natural history of life on Earth to provide a new perspective on the similarities between us and our ancestors in deep time. This 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. Illus.