Headhunters
Subtitle: the search for a science of the mind
By: Ben Shephard
Publisher: The Bodley Head
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9781847921888; 9781446477175
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Neurosciences; History
Description: How did the human brain evolve? Why did it evolve as it did? What is man's place in evolution? This title 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The Voyage; title: 2. On the Islands; title: 3. Mummies and Melanesians; title: 4. The Most Exciting Decade; title: 5. The Wounded Mind; title: 6. 'The world is different now'.