bwaber reviewed The Deep History of Ourselves by Joseph LeDoux
A Limited Book on Neuroscience and Consciousness with an Unrelated First Half
3 stars
The second half of this book is essentially a good introduction to neuroscience and an at times compelling examination of the nature of consciousness. LeDoux seems unaware of the necessity of questioning what he defines as the null hypothesis, leading to ludicrous statements like "scientists must not assume animal consciousness without definitive proof." To be fair, most people make this mistake. The entire first half of this book, though, is almost completely unrelated, and is frankly a poor attempt by a non-expert to review evolutionary history. If you skip that the book itself is limited but could be worth reading if you're interested in these topics