Origins of the Human Brain

Part I: Anatomy of the brain; The first modern men; Image of the human fossil brain: endocranial casts and meningeal vessels in young and adult subjects; Toward a synthetic theory of human brain evolution; The brain of the first hominids; Evolution of neocortical parcellation: the perspective from experimental neuroembryology; Brain locomotion, diet, and culture: how a primate, by chance, became a man; Part II: Genetics; The human genome; Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution; Mammalian homeo box genes: evolutionary and regulatory aspects of a network gene system; Part III: Culture; Life in the fast lane: rapid cultural change and the human evolutionary process; The origins of cultural diversity; Individuals and culture; Man's intelligence as seen through Palaeolithic art; The origins and evolution of writing; Part IV: Intelligence; The origins of consciousness; The social mind; Facts about human language; Cause/induced motion: intention/spontaneous motion.