FROM BACTERIA TO BACH AND BACK

For centuries, this question has intrigued psychologists, physicists, poets, and philosophers, who have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled ability to create, imagine, and explain. Disciples of Darwin have long aspired to explain how consciousness, language, and culture could have appeared through natural selection, blazing promising trails that tend, however, to end in confusi on and controversy. Even though our understanding of the inner workings of proteins, neurons, and DNA is deeper than ever before, th e matter ...[Read more]