Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique, (Hardcover)

from Yiggy

Having seen him speak and enjoying it I had high expectations going in. Ultimately I didn't like it very much and had to force myself to finish it. I thought it was overly conversational to the detriment of explaining what he wanted to explain. There was very little presented which hadn't been wr...

from allthesedarnbooks

While there's some interesting science presented here, I found this book to be somewhat of a disappointment. Gazzaniga seems to change his mind about his own thesis several times, and relates evidence both on and against human evolutionary uniqueness. The chapters are broken up into choppy little...

from motjebben

This book was a WONDERFUL surprise pick by my wife, because she thought that it sounded like my type of book - about Science and Humans - and there weren't many other selections at our local library in the area (about the brain) she was looking. It turns out that her serendipitous pick was perfec...