Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World
 

Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World

by Carl Zimmer

In this unprecedented history of a scientific revolution, award-winning author and journalist Carl Zimmer tells the definitive story of the dawn of the age of the brain and modern consciousness. Told here for the first time, the dramatic tale of how the secrets of the brain were discovered in seventeenth-century England unfolds against a turbulent backdrop of civil war, the Great Fire of... (read more)

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As science progresses, our views about humanity and our place in the world are constantly in flux. This was just as true in history as if is for us today, colorfully illustrated by Carl Zimmer. Following developments stretching back to ancient views on medicine and the human body, through the enlightenment all the way to modern day MRI machines, pulling back the curtain on the brain and the soul. If you hold to old notions of the soul and feel firm in your facts, you'll see that commonly held...

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