I Want to Know Everything. Vol. 1 set of 2 books

The set "I Want to Know Everything. Vol. 1" contains the books:

"The Reasonable Animal. Humans on the Edge of Evolution"

The successes of Homo sapiens in the struggle for survival are indisputable. Its aggressiveness, exceptional inventiveness, and remarkable adaptability have always been beyond praise. After all, it is almost the only biological species (among large vertebrates) that has managed to occupy every ecological niche on the planet. Marching with a lively, life-affirming song across six continents of our small globe, the Wise Man left his distant relatives literally no chance.

It seems that nature did not have time to properly polish the human race, releasing into the world an unrefined product, a raw material, a kind of semi-finished product. The problem is that humans evolved too quickly. The unhurried nature simply did not have time to adequately shape its latest offspring. Accustomed to acting by trial and error, it naively believed that eternity lay ahead.

How this happened and what to do about it is what we will be exploring in this book.

"Between the Ears. The Phenomena of Thinking, Intuition, and Memory"

This book will talk about the real mysteries of the human psyche. There will be no stories about telepathy and clairvoyance, teleportation and psychokinesis, psychotronic weapons from the intelligence agencies, and all-pervasive psi-fields.

We will discuss things far more prosaic, yet no less interesting - memory, intelligence, and human creative abilities, the nervous system and its connection with the sections of the brain and the mechanisms of information retention at the molecular level.

The book is written in a natural science key according to the central dogma of neurobiology, which states that all our mental activity is, in one way or another, a reflection of the processes taking place in brain structures.