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Deep History, Secular Theory
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Deep History, Secular Theory

by Luther Martin
May 2014
Beginner
376 pages
13h 21m
English
De Gruyter
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14. Religion and Cognition

Whereas the twentieth century has been characterized in terms of biological achievement, culminating with the mapping of the human genome, the twenty-first century is forecast as that of the brain. The understanding of this most complex of human organs is a daunting interdisciplinary project that includes, among others, evolutionary biologists and neuroscientists, researchers into cybernetics and artificial intelligence, philosophers and psychologists, social and cultural anthropologists, linguists and historians. Researchers from across this broad range of disciplines have already initiated major investigations into how our evolved genetic endowment expresses itself in the physiology of the brain and its various ...

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ISBN: 9781614518167