Survival: the first 3.8 billion years
Lisa Feldman Barrett,
Nature,
Aug 27, 2019
This is a review of Joseph LeDoux's The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains. I haven't read this, but his Synaptic Self is high on my recommended list. This review isn't as kind as it could be, suggesting that LeDoux is going beyond his area of expertise. The book offers "a natural history of brains as they developed the capacity to create the elements of the human mind, focusing mainly on the emergence of emotions, memory and consciousness." If LeDoux isn't qualified to offer such an account, I don't know who is.
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