From nothingness to birth

Section: Psychology

Number of pages: 294 pages

"If the brain were simple enough to be understood, it would not be so complex that it could understand itself." The brain is truly the most complex structure known to man, more complex than planets, stars, or even galaxies. This book is a narration of all the stages that science has gone through to discover this complex structure, starting from the molecular level, passing through the cellular and embryonic levels, and reaching birth. To what extent are single-celled organisms inherited? To what extent is the human brain similar to and different from the brains of other organisms? And what is the mechanism through which the environment imprints its effects on us? This is just a drop in the bucket of questions that the book poses and answers in a style that attracts the non-specialist reader without alienating specialists, and also by relying on illustrations. The book is completely free of the influences of popular culture and thematic approaches, in addition to the fallacies and exaggerations that have mixed in many books in the Arab library with solid science until they have overwhelmed it and besieged the Arab reader with a task that is not supposed to be his task, which is to separate the wheat from the chaff. It is certainly not surprising that this book is of this degree of reliability and accuracy, and it is one of the publications of Princeton University Press, which is closely linked to the prestigious Princeton University.