Marcus, Gary F.

The Birth of the Mind : How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates The Complexities of Human Thought / Gary F. Marcus - New York : Basic Books, 2004 - 278 p. ; 22 cm.

Acknowledgments; 1 Neither Is Better; 2 Born to Learn; 3 Brain Storms; 4 Aristotle's Impetus; 5 Copernicus's Revenge; 6 Wiring the Mind; 7 The Evolution of Mental Genes; 8 Paradox Lost; 9 Final Frontiers; Appendix: Methods for Reading the Genome; Glossary; Notes; References; Index; Name Index.

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Genetic psychology.Psychobiology.Nature and nurture.

BF701 / .M32 2004