ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|11 pages

Biological evolution

chapter 2|27 pages

The general story of human evolution

chapter 6|25 pages

Visuo-motor evolution: artistic creativity

chapter 7|33 pages

Evolution of learning and memory

chapter 8|24 pages

The mind-brain problem in evolution

chapter 9|24 pages

Creation of the self and its brain

chapter 10|24 pages

The human person