The Birth of the Mind
Subtitle: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: December 16, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780465044054
First sentence: FRANCIS CRICK, codiscoverer of the structure of DNA, recently ar in his book The Astonishing Hypothesis that the activity in our minds has its basis in our brains: "To understand ourselves, we must understand how nerve cells behave and how they interact."