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Epigenetics: The Evolution Revolution

Can the effects of trauma and stress be transmitted over generations?

June 7, 2018 issue

Making Memories

‘Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets’ by Luke Dittrich

Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets

by Luke Dittrich

August 17, 2017 issue

The Secret of Good Taste

Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters

by Gordon M. Shepherd

June 21, 2012 issue

How the Mind Works: Revelations

The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge

by Jean-Pierre Changeux, translated from the French by M.B. DeBevoise

Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors: From Molecular Biology to Cognition

by Jean-Pierre Changeux and Stuart J. Edelstein

Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics

by Jean-Pierre Changeux and Alain Connes, translated from the French by M.B. DeBevoise

What Makes Us Think? A Neuroscientist and a Philosopher Argue about Ethics, Human Nature, and the Brain

by Jean-Pierre Changeux and Paul Ricoeur, translated from the French by M.B. DeBevoise

Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind

by V.S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee, with a foreword by Oliver Sacks

Mirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions and and Emotions

by Giacomo Rizzolatti and Corrado Sinigaglia, translated from the Italian by Frances Anderson

A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination

by Gerald M. Edelman and Giulio Tononi

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June 26, 2008 issue

Evolving Evolution

From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design

by Sean B. Carroll, Jennifer K. Grenier, and Scott D. Weatherbee

Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom

by Sean B. Carroll

The Plausibility of Life:Resolving Darwin's Dilemma

by Marc W. Kirschner and John C. Gerhart

May 11, 2006 issue