Headhunters : the pioneers of neuroscience
Shephard, Ben, 1948-2015
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How did the human brain evolve? Why did it evolve as it did? What is man's place in evolution? In the final decades of the 19th century, these questions began to occupy scientists. With Darwin's theory of evolution now accepted, modern neuroscience began. 'Headhunters' traces the intellectual journey of four men who met at Cambridge in the 1890s and whose lives interlinked for the next three decades - William Rivers, Grafton Elliot Smith, Charles Myers and William McDougall. It follows their voyages of discovery, taking the reader from anthropological field studies in Melanesia and archaeological excavations in Egypt to the psychiatric wards of the First World War.
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Headhunters : the pioneers of neuroscience / Ben Shephard.
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London : Vintage Books, 2015.
Collation:
323 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
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Originally published: London: The Bodley Head, 2014.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780099565734 (pbk)
Language:
English
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BRN:
1847179
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