Zero to Birth Audiobook Libro.fm

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A revelatory tale of how the human brain develops from conception to birth and beyond

By the time a baby is born its brain is equipped with billions of intricately crafted neurons wired together through trillions of interconnections to form a compact and breathtakingly efficient supercomputer Zero to Birth takes you on an extraordinary journey to the very edge of creation from the moment of an eggs fertilization through each step of a human brains development in the womband even a little beyond

As pioneering experimental neurobiologist W A Harris guides you through the process of how the brain is built he takes up the biggest questions that scientists have asked about the developing brain describing many of the thrilling discoveries that were foundational to our current understanding He weaves in a remarkable evolutionary story that begins billions of years ago in the Proterozoic eon when multicellular animals first emerged from singlecell organisms and reveals how the growth of a fetal brain over nine months reflects the brains evolution through the ages Our brains have much in common with those of other animals and Harris offers an illuminating look at how comparative animal studies have been crucial to understanding what makes a human brain human