The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought - Paperback
by Gary Marcus
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465044061ISBN-10:465044069UPC:9780465044061Book Category:PsychologyBook Subcategory:Neuropsychology, Cognitive Psychology & CognitionSize:7.50 x 5.92 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.6702Product ID:SCA943626J
The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought
In The Birth of the Mind, award-winning cognitive scientist Gary Marcus irrevocably alters the nature vs. nurture debate by linking the findings of the Human Genome project to the development of the brain. Startling findings have recently revealed that the genome is much smaller than we once thought, containing no more than 30,000-40,000 genes. Since this discovery, scientists have struggled to...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465044061ISBN-10:465044069UPC:9780465044061Book Category:PsychologyBook Subcategory:Neuropsychology, Cognitive Psychology & CognitionSize:7.50 x 5.92 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.6702Product ID:SCA943626J
Gary Marcus is Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University. Author of The Algebraic Mind, Marcus received his Ph.D. from MIT at the age of twenty-three. In 2002-2003, he is a Fellow of the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences. He lives in New York City. To learn more about Marcus' work, please visit http: //www.psych.nyu.edu/gary/birth.html
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