Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought

Title: Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought
Author: Gary Marcus
Psychology: 1703352
ISBN: 0465044069
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2004
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 288
Section: Psychology | Neuropsychology
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Publisher Description: 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 understand how such a tiny number of genes could contain the instructions for building the human brain, arguably the most complex device in the known universe. Synthesizing up-to-the-minute biology with his own original findings on child development, Marcus is the first to resolve this apparent contradiction by chronicling exactly how genes create the infinite complexities of the human mind. Along the way, he dispels the common misconceptions people harbor about genes, and explores the stunning implications of this research for the future of genetic engineering. Vibrantly written and completely accessible to the lay reader, The Birth of the Mind will forever change the way we think about our origins and ourselves.