ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book introduces the evolution and genetics of behaviour. It reviews of behavioural and psychological areas where both evolutionary and neurological perspectives can be applied. The book explains the newly discovered chemical systems of the brain and also reviews the behavioural effects of some of them in relation to the varying demands of natural environments. It provides information on the structure and morphology of the vertebrate nervous system and discusses the relationship between evolutionary and process biology. The book presents reviews of behavioural and psychological areas where both evolutionary and neurological perspectives can be applied. It considers consciousness not as a human luxury, a television screen into brain activity, but as an evolved process which increases chances of survival in man and which may serve the same survival functions in other animals, especially those with brains similar to our own.
