Chimeras and consciousness : evolution of the sensory self

• Tác giả: Celeste A Asikainen, Wolfgang E Krumbein, Lynn Margulis
• ISBN-10: 0262312468
• ISBN-13: 978-0262312462
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 612.82 Brain
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2011.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (xviii, 321 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : , illustrations (some color), color maps
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 252619
• Chủ đề: 1. Brain--Evolution; 2. Consciousness; 3. Evolution (Biology); 4. Self-consciousness (Awareness); 5. Sense organs--Evolution; 6. Symbiogenesis

Tóm tắt

This title begins the inquiry into the evolution of the collective sensitivities of life. Scientist-scholars from a range of fields - including biochemistry, cell biology, history of science, family therapy, genetics, microbial ecology, and primatology - trace the emergence and evolution of consciousness.