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How the Mind Changed

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The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved by Royal Society Prize shortlisted neuroscientist, Joseph Jebelli.

No other life form on the planet has generated a brain like ours. How did a bundle of cells weighing just 1.2 kg give rise to conscious, self-aware beings capable of understanding time, language, mathematics and music, of exploring outer space and sequencing their own DNA? The answer to such questions is a 7 million year saga.

How the Mind Changed is the definitive audiobook on human brain evolution: a sweeping natural history. Beginning with the first primate brain and the rise of our present-day, large human brain, it will describe the remarkable origin of our species' most mysterious organ, how it has developed, and how it will change in the future. To study the brain is to study the essence of what makes us human.

(P) 2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

Critics Review

How did humans develop such a runaway mind? Joseph Jebelli masterfully illuminates the neurobiological road by which we arrived, and where it might reach from here
David Eagleman, bestselling author of Livewired and Incognito
Jebelli writes with aplomb and an eye for arresting asides... This is a slim, accessible and thought-provoking book - a springboard to further reading
The Times
An eye for thrilling details makes his approachable, sometimes provocative book an aptly mind-expanding experience for the curious reader
The Mail on Sunday
Author Dr Joseph Jebelli
Narrator Joe Eyre
Duration 8 hours and 5 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781529300161
Format Audiobook
Publisher John Murray Press
Genre Evolution, Neurosciences, Popular science
Availability AU, GB, IE

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