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Part I: Anatomy of the brain; The first modern men; Image of the humanfossil brain: endocranial casts and meningeal vessels in young andadult subjects; Toward a synthetic theory of human brain evolution; Thebrain of the first hominids; Evolution of neocortical parcellation: theperspective from experimental neuroembryology; Brain locomotion, diet,and culture: how a primate, by chance, became a man; Part II: Genetics;The human genome; Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution; Mammalianhomeo box genes: evolutionary and regulatory aspects of a network genesystem; Part III: Culture; Life in the fast lane: rapid cultural changeand the human evolutionary process; The origins of cultural diversity;Individuals and culture; Man's intelligence as seen throughPalaeolithic art; The origins and evolution of writing; Part IV:Intelligence; The origins of consciousness; The social mind; Factsabout human language; Cause/induced motion: intention/spontaneousmotion.