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The idea of evolution -- Origins -- The vertebrate brain -- The social primate -- Homo social cooperative learners -- Speech -- The arrival of numeracy -- The e

How does learning transform us biologically? What learning processes do we share with bacteria, jellyfish and monkeys? Is technology impacting on our evolution

This book examines how evolution influences learning and memory processes in both human and nonhuman animals.

Sir John Eccles, a distinguished scientist and Nobel Prize winner who has devoted his scientific life to the study of the mammalian brain, tells the story of ho

“There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean, and ‘learning’ is such a word. It seems so ordinary, everyo