Throwing Madonna Essays on the Brain

Name: Throwing Madonna Essays on the Brain
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ISBN: 9780595160495

ISBN-10: 0595160492

ISBN-13: 9780595160495

Edition: 2001

Authors: William H. Calvin

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Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/17/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



First Things


Preface


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?


When Things Go Wrong


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


Probing Language Cortex: The Second Wave


Prospects


The Creation Myth, Updated: A Scenario for Humankind


Bibliography


Index