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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book reveals a new understanding of the evolution of human perception of facial expressions. It documents the overwhelming evidence for a rapid rate of human behavioural evolution difficult to explain by conventional genetic theories of evolution(the neo-Darwinian view-point) and identifies some of the more recently uncovered genetic mechanisms which might account for this evolution. -- Dr. Edward J. Steele, author of Somatic Selection and Adaptive Evolution and Lamarck's Signature
In this clearly written book Brener draws on diverse sources to provide new insights, fascinating and challenging ideas about the face. -- Dr. Paul Ekman, author of The Face of Man and Telling Lies
I found Brener's book absorbing. It reads like a good detective story with clues from neuropsychology, anthropology, art and literature. The synthesis of these clues results in a breakthrough in understanding human development in historical times. Brener attributes much of this development to evolution of the right cerebral hemisphere and his thesis may thus give us at least an intriguing glimpse into our unknowable future. -- Nikolai Nkiolaenko, author of Brain Pictures
Brener's monograph makes interesting and easy reading, and is of undeniable importance to Russian biologists concerning matters of cognition. It addresses many problems that are usually exploited by "narrow" specialists and builds bridges between clinical and experimental neurosciences. . . . the monograph typifies the development of clinical trends in evolutionary physiology. * Journal Of Evolutionary Biology and Physiology, (Russia) *
What this book should make the reader do it, as it did me, is reevaluate all those philosophical and sociological theses (Hegel, Marx, Spengler, Scheler, Benjamin, Adorno, Foucault) in a biological light. The future is biological, not socio-philosophical. -- Dr. John Cutting, author of The Right Cerebral Hemisphere and Psychiatric Disordres; Principals of Psychopathology, and Psychopathology and Modern
What this book should make the reader do it, as it did me, is reevaluate all those philosophical and sociological theses (Hegel, Marx, Spengler, Scheler, Benjamin, Adorno, Foucault) in a biological light. The future is biological, not socio-philosophical. -- Dr. John Cutting, author of
The Right Cerebral Hemisphere and Psychiatric Disordres; Principals of Psychopathology, and Psychopathology and Mod
This book reveals a new understanding of the evolution of human perception of facial expressions. It documents the overwhelming evidence for a rapid rate of human behavioural evolution difficult to explain by conventional genetic theories of evolution (the neo-Darwinian view-point) and identifies some of the more recently uncovered genetic mechanisms which might account for this evolution. -- Dr. Edward J. Steele, author of Somatic Selection and Adaptive Evolution and Lamarck's Signature
In this clearly written book Brener draws on diverse sources to provide new insights, fascinating and challenging ideas about the face. -- Dr. Paul Ekman, author of The Face of Man and Telling Lies
I found Brener's book absorbing. It reads like a good detective story with clues from neuropsychology, anthropology, art and literature. The synthesis of these clues results in a breakthrough in understanding human development in historical times. Brener attributes much of this development to evolution of the right cerebral hemisphere and his thesis may thus give us at least an intriguing glimpse into our unknowable future. -- Nikolai Nkiolaenko, author of Brain Pictures
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Foreward; Acknowledgements; Photograph Descriptions and Credits; Preface Chapter 2 A Concept of Space: People Without Faces Chapter 3 The "Minor Hemisphere" Chapter 4 Mute Faces: Faces Without Expression Chapter 5 The Greeks and Their Progeny Chapter 6 Faces Without Description Chapter 7 The Evolving Face: Emotion versus Feeling Chapter 8 Facial Expression and "The Ghost of Lamarck" Chapter 9 Aesthetics of the Third Dimension Chapter 10 The Language of the Face: Empathy and Human Sacrifice Chapter 11 Courtly Love and the Image of Narcissus Chapter 12 Notes; Author Index; Subject Index; About the Author
