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The deep history of ourselves : the four-billion-year story of how we got conscious brains / Joseph LeDoux ; illustrations by Caio Sorrentino.

by LeDoux, Joseph E.

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Brain -- Evolution.

Nervous system -- Evolution.

9780735223837 (hc.)

xviii, 412 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Our place in nature -- Survival and behavior -- Microbial life -- The transition to complexity -- And then animals invented neurons -- Metazoan bread crumbs in the oceans -- The vertebrates arrive -- Ladders and trees in the vertebrate brain -- The beginning of cognition -- Surviving (and thriving) by thinking -- Cognitive hardware -- Subjectivity -- Consciousness through the looking glass of memory -- The shallows -- Emotional subjectivity.

In The Deep History of Ourselves LeDoux argues that the key to understanding all human behavior lies in viewing evolution through the prism of the first living organisms. By tracking the chain of the evolutionary timeline he shows how even the earliest single cell organisms had to solve the same problems we and our cells have to solve today in order to survive and thrive. Along the way, LeDoux explores our place in nature, how conscious brain function climbed the tree of life, and how the brain managed to transcend its early concern with survival to reach towards what we humans understand as consciousness.

Sorrentino, Caio Da Silva.

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