TY - BOOK ID - 77870445 TI - On deep history and the brain PY - 2008 SN - 1282359347 9786612359347 0520934164 1435603982 9780520934160 9781435603981 9781282359345 9780520252899 0520252896 PB - Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - History KW - Philosophy. KW - Mental philosophy KW - Humanities KW - History, Modern KW - Philosophy KW - academic. KW - church history. KW - civilization. KW - darwin. KW - evolution. KW - historical conscious. KW - historical. KW - history. KW - judeo christian. KW - lamarck. KW - literature. KW - logical. KW - neurobiology. KW - neuroscience. KW - paleohistory. KW - prehistory. KW - psychotropy. KW - religious history. KW - religious studies. KW - sacred history. KW - sacred. KW - scholarly. KW - science. KW - scientific. KW - world history. KW - writing. KW - written communication. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77870445 AB - When does history begin? What characterizes it? This brilliant and beautifully written book dissolves the logic of a beginning based on writing, civilization, or historical consciousness and offers a model for a history that escapes the continuing grip of the Judeo-Christian time frame. Daniel Lord Smail argues that in the wake of the Decade of the Brain and the best-selling historical work of scientists like Jared Diamond, the time has come for fundamentally new ways of thinking about our past. He shows how recent work in evolution and paleohistory makes it possible to join the deep past with the recent past and abandon, once and for all, the idea of prehistory. Making an enormous literature accessible to the general reader, he lays out a bold new case for bringing neuroscience and neurobiology into the realm of history. ER -