Headhunters : the search for a science of the mind
Shephard, Ben, 1948-2014
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How did the human brain evolve? Why did it evolve as it did? What is man's place in evolution? In the final decades of the 19th century, these questions began to occupy scientists. With Darwin's theory of evolution now accepted, modern neuroscience began. 'Head Hunters' traces the intellectual journey of four men who met at Cambridge in the 1890s and whose lives interlinked for the next three decades - William Rivers, Grafton Elliot Smith, Charles Myers and William McDougall. It follows their voyages of discovery, taking the reader from anthropological field studies in Melanesia and archaeological excavations in Egypt to the psychiatric wards of the First World War.
Main title:
Headhunters : the search for a science of the mind / Ben Shephard.
Author:
Shephard, Ben, 1948-, author
Imprint:
London : The Bodley Head, 2014.London : The Bodley Head, 2014.
Collation:
323 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781847921888 (hbk)
Dewey class:
612.809612.809 SHE612.809SHE
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1559692