Synopses & Reviews
Sir John Eccles, a distinguished scientist and Nobel Prize winner who has devoted his scientific life to the study of the mammalian brain, tells the story of how we came to be, not only as animals at the end of the hominid evolutionary line, but also as human persons possessed of reflective consciousness.
Synopsis
Beginning with an account of the genetic basis of evolutionary theory, Sir John goes on to give an illustrated description of the principal features of hominid evolution, the line of human evolutionary descent.