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<div><font face="Arial"><i>Announcing</i></font> [and with apologies
for multiple postings]</div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+3"
color="#FF6600"><i><b>The Birth of the Mind</b></i></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2"
color="#000000"><i><b>How A Tiny Number of Genes
Creates</b></i></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2"
color="#000000"><i><b>the Complexity of Human
Thought</b></i></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+1"><b>By</b></font> <a
href="http://www.psych.nyu.edu/gary/index.html"><font face="Arial"
size="+2"><b>Gary Marcus</b></font></a></div>
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<blockquote><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#FF6600"><b>"A
joy to read."</b></font></blockquote>
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Publisher's Weekly</b></i></font></blockquote>
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<blockquote><font face="Arial" size="+1"
color="#FF6600"><b>"Expert and
Lucid"</b></font></blockquote>
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size="+1"><i><b><x-tab>
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</x-tab>--</b></i><b> Noam Chomsky</b></font></blockquote>
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<blockquote><font face="Arial" size="+1"
color="#FF6600"><b>"Brilliantly
Original"</b></font></blockquote>
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</x-tab>--</b></i><b> Steven Pinker</b></font></blockquote>
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<blockquote><font face="Arial" size="+1"
color="#FF6600"><b>"[Across] such diverse disciplines as
evolution, genetics, gene expression, cell biology, neurobiology, and
psychology, Marcus .... makes the relevant issues understandable to
the lay reader, and does an even better job of dispelling the myths
that impede the way we think about genes and their role in making
brains, and hence minds."</b></font></blockquote>
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</x-tab>--<i> Nature</i></b></font></blockquote>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#FF6600"><b>From the
Jacket</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="+1">The Human Genome Project has blazed
new trails in medical science and genetic research. We know that
within hours of their birth, babies can recognize faces, connect what
they hear with what they see and tell the difference between Dutch and
Japanese. Our genes prepare us to observe the world; they shape
the finest details of the human brain. But as far as psychology
is concerned, writes award-winning cognitive scientist Gary Marcus,
"it's almost as if Watson and Crick never met DNA."<br>
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With<i> The Birth of the Mind</i> , Gary Marcus enters the nature vs.
nurture debate and changes it forever. Genetics isn't destiny,
but the only way to know what nature brings to the table, he argues,
is to take a look at what genes actually do.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="+1">Startling findings have recently
revealed that the genome is much smaller than we once thought,
containing no more than 30,000-40,000 genes. Since this discovery,
scientists have struggled to understand how such a tiny number of
genes could contain the instructions for building the human brain,
arguably the most complex device in the known universe. Synthesizing
up-to-the-minute research with his own original findings on child
development, Marcus is the first to resolve this apparent
contradiction as he chronicles exactly how genes create the infinite
complexities of the human mind. Along the way, he reveals the
common misconceptions people harbor about genes, and explores the
stunning implications of this research for the future of genetic
engineering.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="+1"><b>January 2004 (Basic
Books).</b></font></div>
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