Una historia natural de la humanidad

Renowned neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux delves into the natural history of life on earth to provide a new perspective on the similarities between ourselves and our ancestors. This review of evolution on Earth sheds new light on how nervous systems evolved in animals, how the brain developed, and what it means to be human. In A Natural History of Humanity, LeDoux argues that the key to understanding human behavior lies in viewing evolution through the prism of the earliest living organisms. As he traces the evolutionary chain through the years, he shows how even the first single-celled organisms had to solve the same problems that we continue to face in our day-to-day lives. Likewise, LeDoux explores our place in nature, how the evolution of nervous systems enhanced the ability of organisms to survive and thrive, and how the emergence of what we humans understand as consciousness made possible our greatest and most horrendous achievements as a species.