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Condition: Very Good Jacket has bookseller's label on back and very slight damage at some edges. Book has short ink inscription on flyleaf and light staining on top edge. Content: "Most of us can agree that men and women look and behave differently, but the question that still sends scientists into paroxysms is why. Why do we have two sexes at all; why are they different? Recent decades have seen the pendulum of explanation swing from nature to nurture and back again. But Sex on the Brain presents a convincing carse that we're products of both our biology and our culture - and that the two perform an intricate dance whose steps are, to some extent, ones we can choose. "Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Deborah Blum has synthesized research so now - from the fields of evolutionary biology, anthropology, animal behavior (especially primatology), neuroscience, psychology and other disciplines - that scientists are just beginning to publish it. She provides the best picture yet of the biological underpinnings of the differences between the sexes." (from the jacket) Background / Biography: "Deborah Blum is the author of The Monkey Wars and a co-editor of A Field Guide for Science Writers. She is a professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Previously, she covered science for The Sacramento Bee and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for a series exploring the ethical dilemmas of using primates in research. Her work has also been published in Psychology Today, Discover and Time-Life books. She serves on the board of directors of the National Association of Science Writers." (from the jacket) Reviews: Clicking on advertiser links on this site may allow these companies to gather and use information about your visit to this and other websites to provide you with advertisements about goods and services presumed to be of interest to you. |
Quote from this book "Because male songbirds do sing - and their mates do not - the males use their brains differently to produce music.The 'music box' of their brain sits near the front. It's usually called the Higher Vocal Center. In this compact nucleus, the neurons of males usually expand into a space some six times greater than that of females. The difference is so strong that scientists who study songbirds can see it when they do a simple dissection of the brain." p37, Chapter Two Secondhand booksellers |
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