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Nature 427, 681 (19 February 2004) | doi:10.1038/427681b
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A recipe for the mind
Anthony P. Monaco1
BOOK REVIEWED-The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought
by Gary Marcus
Basic Books: 2004. 240 pp.
$26, £19.99
If the mind can be explained from the workings of the brain, and the brain develops by direction from our genes, then presumably the mind can be explained from our genetic make-up. But how can only 30,000 genes make a brain with billions of neurons and encode the particular aspects of cognition that make us human?
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