¿Cuales son los mecanismos que van desde un gen, desde un cromosoma, desde una molecula? ¿Por que somos como somos? Es una pregunta que en los comienzos del siglo XXI se plantea de manera totalmente distinta a como se hiciera en epocas anteriores. El conocimiento cientifico comienza a formar parte de los intereses y de la sociedad en general. La neurociencia nos ensena pautas fundamentales para comprender la individualidad de la conducta humana...

"Why do we constantly feel overwhelmed by stress, dissatisfied in our careers and relationships, and lacking in real purpose? Why do we seem to sabotage ourselves, hampering our productivity and success? The answer lies in our instincts . . . In every area of life, from business to relationships to health, we act on outdated instincts that were built to help us survive a world ruled by scarcity and danger. But in today's world, those same instincts...

"This book covers the psychological aspects of human evolution with a table of contents ranging from prehistoric times to modern days. Dunbar focuses on an aspect of evolution that has typically been overshadowed by the archaeological record: the biological, neurological, and genetic changes that occurred with each "transition" in the evolutionary narrative"--

"A fascinating look at collaboration: the evolution of human cooperative behavior and how it has allowed cultures to develop and drive social change"--

"For most of the approximately 200,000 years that our species has existed, we shared the planet with at least four other types of humans. They were smart, they were strong, and they were inventive. Neanderthals even had the capacity for spoken language. But, one by one, our hominid relatives went extinct. Why did we thrive? In delightfully conversational prose and based on years of his own original research, Brian Hare, professor in the department...

"Why are we losing the fight against depression? In this groundbreaking work, psychologist Jonathan Rottenberg explains that despite advances in pharmaceutical science, progress has been hampered by our fundamental misunderstanding of depression as a psychological or chemical defect. Instead, Rottenberg introduces a surprising alternative: that depression is a particularly severe outgrowth of our natural capacity for emotion; it is a low mood gone...

"A radically immersive exploration of three pivotal moments in the evolution of human consciousness, asking what kinds of creatures humans were, are, and might yet be"-- How did humans come to be who we are? In hiw widely lauded book Being a Beast, legal scholar, veterinary surgeon, and naturalist Charles Foster set out to understand the consciousness of animals by living as a badger and other species. Now he inhabits three crucial periods of human...

"Scientists are learning more and more details of how patterns of brain activity control behaviour; how animals - including humans - make decisions, how neural circuits accumulate evidence, weigh alternatives, and instigate actions. But as that decision-making machinery is being revealed, it seems harder to escape the conclusion that we really are just machines. Indeed, according to Mitchell it is fashionable among many scientists to declare that...

What enabled us to go from simple stone tools to smartphones? How did bands of hunter-gatherers evolve into multinational empires? Readers of Sapiens will say a cognitive revolution -- a dramatic evolutionary change that altered our brains, turning primitive humans into modern ones -- caused a cultural explosion. In Transcendence, Gaia Vince argues instead that modern humans are the product of a nuanced coevolution of our genes, environment, and culture...