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©1982
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"Laurence M. Klauber's monumental, 1500-page, two-volume book received the highest critical acclaim when it was published in 1956; a continuing demand for this encyclopedic work led to a revised edition in 1972 and additional reprintings since then. A large part of the original work can be understood only by trained biologists, and it is only these portions that have been removed for this new edition. What remains is a lively, engaging, comprehensive...
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[1992]
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We are on the brink of understanding ancient mysteries: how we know, what governs our nature, what makes a person different from a thing. In the last decade, more than twenty disciplines dealing with every aspect of the brain have contributed to a revolution in the neurosciences--a revolution as significant, in the view of many observers, as the Galilean and Copernican revolutions in mathematics and physics or the Darwinian revolution in biology....