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The idea of evolution -- Origins -- The vertebrate brain -- The social primate -- Homo social cooperative learners -- Speech -- The arrival of numeracy -- The emergence of the written word -- Evolution meets education -- The future of the learning brain
The Oxford handbook of neuroethics
by Sahakian, B. J., Illes, Judy
fromOxford Handbooks