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From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

Hardcover ā€¢ 2017 ā€¢ English

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

By Daniel C. Dennett

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About the book

How did we come to have minds? For centuries, this question has intrigued psychologists, physicists, poets, and philosophers, who have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled ability to create, imagine, and explain. Disciples of Darwin have long aspired to explain how consciousness, language, and culture could have appeared through natural selection, blazing promising trails that tend, however, to end in confusion and controversy. Even though our understanding of the inner workings o...Show more

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9780393242072

Publisher

W. W. Norton Company

Published year

2017

Language

English

Original title

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

Format

Hardcover

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