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Defending the cavewoman : and other tales of evolutionary neurology

Title: Defending the cavewoman : and other tales of evolutionary neurology / Harold Klawans.
Author: Klawans, Harold L.
Publication: New York : W.W. Norton, 2000.

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Description

256 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Dr. Harold Klawans examines people ranging from the woman suffering from "painful foot and moving toe syndrome," whose case reminds him that we were once reptiles with brains at the bases of our spines, to the farmer from Indiana who didn't have mad cow disease, but something similar, caused by a protein-like pathogen that man himself has helped nurture by removing the pressures of natural selection from his herds of livestock and from his own communities.
As Klawans notes, "almost all of man's recent 'evolution' takes place outside the body ... because man can alter his environment in ways that no other species ever could." In the best tradition of clinical tales, this physician storyteller weaves into his patient narratives insights into the evolutionary legacy encoded in the brain and the remarkable capacity of the human mind."--BOOK JACKET.

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Contents

Pt. 1. The Ascent of Cognitive Function -- 1. Defending the Cavewoman: The Window of Opportunity for Learning -- 2. A Lucy of My Very Own: Locating Handedness and Speech -- 3. The Gift of Speech: Frank Morrell and the Treatment of Acquired Epileptic Aphasia -- 4. Manganese Miners: Hard Wiring for Movement -- 5. I Never Read a Movie I Liked: The Architecture of Reading -- 6. One of These Things Is Not Like the Others: How Literacy Changes the Brain -- 7. The Music Goes Round and Round: But It Comes in Where? -- Pt. 2. The Brain's Soft Spots: Programmed Cell Death, Prions, and Pain -- 8. My Lunch with Oliver: Why That Morning Was Different from All the Other Mornings -- 9. Two Sets of Brains: Something Old, Something "New" -- 10. Anticipation: Unto the Third Generation and Beyond -- 11. The Hermit of Thief River Falls: On First Meeting an Eponym -- 12. Mad Cows and Mad Markets: Ice-Nine and the Non-Darwinian Evolution of Man and Disease --
13. Whatever Happened to Baby Neanderthal? An Afterthought.

ISBN

0393048314

LCCN

99036704

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Columbia University Libraries