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Brain, Vol. 122, No. 4, 785-786, April 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

Book Reviews

DISCOVERIES IN THE HUMAN BRAIN. NEUROSCIENCE PREHISTORY, BRAIN STRUCTURE, AND FUNCTION.

By Louise H. Marshall and Horace W. Magoun. 1998. Pp. 322. New Jersey: The Humana Press. Price $59.50. ISBN 0-89603-435-6..

Lindsay Haas and Margaret Lewis

Wellington Hospital, New Zealand

The overwhelming impact of this book is not just the discoveries it describes so well, but the portraits it paints of the discoverers. Without the tools and scientific techniques presently available, these scientists used their minds, patience, perseverance, and scientific method to deduce and discover facts of enduring importance. The discoverers and their discoveries emerge in sharp focus from these beautifully illustrated and comprehensively referenced pages. Each of the dozen chapters concludes with a brief overview of its essential messages, consolidating for the reader its relevance to previous chapters and its contribution to those which follow.

The introduction embraces three broad postulates. The first, the continuum, is the relentless, continuing but ever-changing evolutionary process. This launches the reader directly into the early evolutionary gestation of the most important and versatile of organs, the human brain, recorded over time by its protector—the skull—as it responded to the many and changing physical . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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