Brain: A 21st Centry look at a 400 million year old organ

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Brain takes a 21st Century Look at the major concepts that will help the reader understand the complex structure and function of the brain, whether plants have brains and what the brains of small animals like flies and worms look like and if size matters. Brain looks at the structure of neural cells and what a synapse looks like and does as well as examine the chemical nature of how nerves work and how some molecules like dopamine work to influence the way our nervous systems work. It also looks at how the brain works and what parts of the brain might control what functions and how FMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) looks at the brain. This lavishly illustrated book examines how our brain works when we sleep, see things, perceive and remember things.

PRODUCT DETAILS

Hardcover: 40 pages
ISBN-10: 1593730853
ISBN-13: 978-1593730857
Language: English
Dimensions: 11 x 8.1 x 0.5 inches
Weight: 1.2 pounds

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR

Patricia Wynne

Patrica J. Wynne  is an award winning artist who lives with her husband, artist Donald Silver, in New York City. She works at the American Museum of Natural History and teaches numerous courses when she is not illustrating books. Her books are frequently on Book of the Year Lists in Newsweek, Smithsonian Magazine, Scientific American, Parade, New York Times Book Review and others.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rob DeSalle is a molecular biologist in the Institute for Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History. He lives in New York in Alphabet City.

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Bones, Brains and DNA

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Based on the new Spitzer Hall of Human Origins in the American Museum of Natural History, which opened in February 2007, this book about the genome takes the young reader to the cutting edge of science, exploring and examining the tools by which we study our origins, some of the milestones in those origins, human movement across the planet and the beginnings of being human – through language, music, art and tools.

REVIEWS

via The Reading Tub (c) – “This book is a jewel; the title doesn’t give the book its justice. The authors know how to keep their readers engaged and interested in the topic. The graphics and illustrations complement the text and grab the reader’s attention. This book is a jewel.”

via Amazon.com (c) 2007 – “This was a very good book for my seven year old who is interested in DNA and evolution.”

PRODUCT DETAILS

Hardcover:  40 pages
ISBN-10: 159373056X
ISBN-13: 978-1593730567
Language: English
Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.2 x 0.6 inches
Weight: 1 pounds

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR

Patricia Wynne

Patricia J. Wynne is an award winning artist who lives with her husband, artist Donald Silver, in New York City. She works at the American Museum of Natural History and teaches numerous courses when she is not illustrating books. Patricia illustrated Summer of Cecily by Nan Lincoln for Bunker Hill Publishing. She has a studio in New York City. Her books are frequently on Book of the Year Lists in Newsweek, Smithsonian Magazine, Scientific American, Parade, New York Times Book Review and others. You can find many examples of her work on her website http://www.patriciawynne.com.

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Ian Tattersall

Ian Tattersall is currently Curator in the Division of Anthropology of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.  Born in England and raised in East Africa, he has carried out both primatological and paleontological fieldwork in countries as diverse as Madagascar, Vietnam, Surinam, Yemen and Mauritius.  Trained in archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge, and in geology and vertebrate paleontology at Yale, Tattersall has concentrated his research since the 1960s in three main areas: the analysis of the human fossil record and its integration with evolutionary theory, the origin of human cognition, and the study of the ecology and systematics of the lemurs of Madagascar.

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Rob DeSalle is a molecular biologist in the Institute for Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History. He lives in New York in Alphabet City.

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Ian Tattersall

Ian Tattersall is currently Curator in the Division of Anthropology of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.  Born in England and raised in East Africa, he has carried out both primatological and paleontological fieldwork in countries as diverse as Madagascar, Vietnam, Surinam, Yemen and Mauritius.  Trained in archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge, and in geology and vertebrate paleontology at Yale, Tattersall has concentrated his research since the 1960s in three main areas: the analysis of the human fossil record and its integration with evolutionary theory, the origin of human cognition, and the study of the ecology and systematics of the lemurs of Madagascar.  Tattersall is also a prominent interpreter of human paleontology to the public, with several trade books to his credit, among them Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us About Ourselves (with Rob DeSalle, 2007), The Monkey in the Mirror (2002), Extinct Humans (with Jeffrey Schwartz, 2000), Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness (1998), The Last Neanderthal: The Rise, Success and Mysterious Extinction of Our Closest Human Relatives (1995; rev. 1999) and The Fossil Trail: How We Know What We Think We Know About Human Evolution (1995; 2nd. ed. 2009) as well as several articles in Scientific American and the co-editorship of the definitive Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory.  He lectures widely at venues around the world, and, as curator, has also been responsible for several major exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History, including Ancestors: Four Million Years of Humanity (1984); Dark Caves, Bright Visions: Life In Ice Age Europe (1986); Madagascar: Island of the Ancestors  (1989); The First Europeans: Treasures from the Hills of Atapuerca (2003); the highly acclaimed Hall of Human Biology and Evolution (1993), and most recently the successor Hall of Human Origins (2007).

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Bones, Brains and DNA

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Based on the new Spitzer Hall of Human Origins in the American Museum of Natural History, which opened in February 2007, this book about the genome takes the young reader to the cutting edge of science, exploring and examining the tools by which we study our origins, some of the milestones in those origins, human movement across the planet and the beginnings of being human – through language, music, art and tools. Read More…

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