Evolution of the Brain: Creation of the Self
Published 5 July 2005
John C. Eccles
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This chapter discusses the evolution of hominid brain: bipedality agility and Cerebral limbic system in relation to the Evolution of the reproductive and emotional systems and the self and its brain.
Abstract
Sir John Eccles, a distinguished scientist and Nobel Prize winner who has devoted his scientific life to the study of the mammalian brain, tells the story of how we came to be, not only as animals at the end of the hominid evolutionary line, but also as human persons possessed of reflective consciousness.
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Neuroscience