Think Tank: Forty Neuroscientists Explore the Biological Roots of Human Experience

A spirited collection of essays by cutting-edge neuroscientists that irreverently explores the quirky and counterintuitive aspects of brain function

Neuroscientist David J. Linden approached leading brain researchers and asked each the same question: “What idea about brain function would you most like to explain to the world?” Their responses make up this one‑of‑a‑kind collection of popular science essays that seeks to expand our knowledge of the human mind and its possibilities. The contributors, whose areas of expertise include human behavior, molecular genetics, evolutionary biology, and comparative anatomy, address a host of fascinating topics ranging from personality to perception, to learning, to beauty, to love and sex. The manner in which individual experiences can dramatically change our brains’ makeup is explored.

Professor Linden and his contributors open a new window onto the landscape of the human mind and into the cutting‑edge world of neuroscience with a fascinating and enlightening compilation that science enthusiasts and professionals alike will find accessible and enjoyable.

• The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
• The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are
• The Consciousness Instinct: Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind
• Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
• Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
• Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI
• Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking
• The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves
• The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
• Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are