The Accidental Mind

How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God

David J. Linden

  • Finalist, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Science Category

Prologue: Brain Explained

1. The Inelegant Design of the Brain

2. Building a Brain with Yesterday's Parts

3. Some Assembly Required

4. Sensation and Emotion

5. Learning, Memory, and Human Individuality

6. Love and Sex

7. Sleeping and Dreaming

8. The Religious Impulse

9. The Unintelligent Design of the Brain

Epilogue: That Middle Thing

Further Reading and Resources

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: The Accidental Mind
  • A photo of the author

Photograph by Frederick Dubs

David J. Linden is Professor of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.