Headhunters

Vintage Publishing

HeadhuntersThe Pioneers of Neuroscience\nAuthor(s): Ben Shephard\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: Vintage\nISBN-13: 9780099565734, 978-0099565734\nSynopsis\nHow did the human brain evolve? Why did it evolve as it did? What is mans place in evolution? In the final decades of the nineteenth century, these questions began to occupy scientists. With Darwins theory of evolution now accepted, modern neuroscience began.\n\nHeadhunters traces the intellectual journey of four men who met at Cambridge in the 1890s and whose lives interlinked for the next three decades William Rivers, Grafton Elliot Smith, Charles Myers and William McDougall. It follows their voyages of discovery, taking the reader from anthropological field studies in Melanesia and archaeological excavations in Egypt to the psychiatric wards of the First World War. Their work ranged across fields that today carry a variety of labels neurology, psychology, psychiatry, zoology but wh.