Brain Architecture

For more than two thousand years, scientists have tried to understand how the structures of the brain work together to produce thoughts, feelings and behavior. This book surveys a number of theories that have been proposed over time, and it argues that a new theory can potentially explain a lot about the brain's basic plan. The author says that advances in understanding the brain's basic plan have come especially from two traditional lines of biological thought—evolution and embryology because each begins with the simple and progresses to the more complex.