Foreword xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgements xv
Introduction to Your Life’s Story xvii
1st Quarter: Your Cradle, from Numbers to Stubbornness 1
Chapter One Phase Transitions: To Do or Not to Do 5
Chapter Two Sync: You Do My Thing and I Do Yours 20
Chapter Three Emergent Networks: Life Organizes in a Tinker-Toy Way 37
2nd Quarter: Pattern-Makers—Brains Are Made to Read 57
Chapter Four Exploration: Keeping What You Have and Getting More 61
Chapter Five Harrison Bergeron: The Outside, the
Average, and the Outstanding 80
Chapter Six Common Sense 96
3rd Quarter: Chosen Environments: Sync, and Disputes 113
Chapter Seven We’re All Twins 117
Chapter Eight Conceived to Rebel 137
Chapter Nine Your Divided Self 152
4th Quarter: Old Dogs, Suicide, and Free Won’t 169
Chapter Ten Old Dogs, Young Tricks 173
Chapter Eleven Suicide and Apoptosis: Mother Said "No" 187
Chapter Twelve Free Won’t 207
Trusted Sources and Notes 223
Bibliography 239
About the Author 277
Index 279
About Me
- JimB
- United States
- James Brody has a Ph. D. in psychology and has been listed in the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology since 1975. He has written more than a dozen book reviews, most on //www.human-nature.com and found by asking Yahoo or Google for "James Brody, evolution." He has three book chapters and research papers in psychopharmacology, operant conditioning, and clinical applications, including one long ago, in Psychopharmacologia and another, equally long ago, in Nature. (The 1970 paper on serotonin led to 1300 reprint requests, the 1969 paper in Nature to 650.) Brody also pioneered courses for the Cape Cod Institute: "Taking Charge of Your Genes," "Healing the Moral Animal," "Darwinian Feelings and Values," and "Twins and Us" and he involved notables such as Robert Wright, Frank Sulloway, John Pearce, Russell Gardner, and Nancy Segal in the presentations. He has presented at state-wide, national, and international meetings and hosts and contributes regularly to the Evolutionary Psychology forum at http://www.behavior.net/bolforums/forumdisplay.php?s=b5363f96b7b39cb3ae7b3863438ed2b7&f=14 The EP forum has roughly 350,000 visitors per year.