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The co-discoverer of the "split brain" theory describes how selection theory has revolutionized human understanding of biology, showing how natural selection affects everything from clinical depression to substance abuse.
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Gazzaniga believes that circuits for language and problem-solving were built into the human brain as the result of millions of years of evolution. Selection theory, which this Dartmouth professor of psychiatry espouses, goes even further: it maintains that we are born with all the world's complexity built inside us; what, to the outsider, seems like learning, is merely a matching process, as the organism searches through its library of circuits to select the most suitable strategy for a given external challenge. In an accessible treatise that takes the nature vs. nurture controversy to a new extreme, Gazzaniga ( The Social Brain ), using selection theory, dismantles psychoanalysis, chides doctors for not heeding the body's innate wisdom, and offers explanations for drug addiction, alcoholism, dieting, hypersexed behavior and compulsions. He advises parents to "set a context for opportunity" and to let the child do the rest. Emphasizing "feeling-in-control" as a key to well-being, he suggests that "disempowering" institutions such as welfare and homes for the elderly can be detrimental. Photos. Library of Science alternate.
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- PublisherBasic Books
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0465076491
- ISBN 13 9780465076499
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages240
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