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Author:
Shephard, Ben, 1948- author.
Title:
Headhunters : the search for a science of the mind / Ben Shephard.
Publisher:
The Bodley Head,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
323 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject:
Rivers, W. H. R.--(William Halse Rivers),--1864-1922.
Smith, Grafton Elliot,--1871-1937.
Myers, Charles S.--(Charles Samuel),--1873-1946.
McDougall, William,--1871-1938.
Neurosciences--History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
1. The Voyage -- 2. On the Islands -- 3. Mummies and Melanesians -- 4. The Most Exciting Decade -- 5. The Wounded Mind -- 6. 'The world is different now'.
Summary:
How did the human brain evolve? Why did it evolve as it did? What is man's place in evolution? This title traces the intellectual journey of four men who met at Cambridge in the 1890s and whose lives interlinked for the next three decades - William Rivers, Grafton Elliot Smith, Charles Myers and William McDougall.
ISBN:
1847921884 (hbk.)
9781847921888 (hbk.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)876292233
LCCN:
2014471171
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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