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The master of destiny
Frederick Tilney and Austen Fox Riggs
The brain is the master of destiny, and Frederick Tilney traces its rise from the earliest animals. He follows the critical changes that shaped the nervous system, from primitive ancestors toward the thinking mind. Sweeping, ambitious, and grounded in comparative biology. A grand story of how mind emerged from matter across the ages. Trace the long climb from the first nerve to human thought.
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160 chapters
- 1THE MASTER OF DESTINY
- 2FOREWORD
- 3CONTENTS
- 4CHAPTER I PRIMITIVE ANCESTORS ORIGIN AND EARLY DAYS OF THE BRAIN
- 5Earliest Forms of Animal Life
- 6Familiar Animals of Earliest Type
- 7Critical Changes in Animal Existence
- 8Early Influences at Work to Form the Brain
- 9A New Motor Device
- 10Foundation Stones of the Brain
- 11Nerve Concentration in Forming the Head
- 12Development of Better Brains
- 13Advent of Backboned Animals
- 14Vast Ages of Animal Life
- 15The Long Upward March Toward Humanity
- 16CHAPTER II ANCESTORS BEFORE THE APES THE BRAIN FROM FISH TO MAN
- 17Practical Significance of Evolution
- 18Evidence of Evolution in Our Bodies
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