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A lucid presentation of a fascinating and ingenious new body of research. -- Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, author of The Blank Slate, How the Mind Works, and Words and Rules Sex differences are one thing, individual differences are another. The emerging success of using variations in the human genome to explain individuality can blind us to the contributions that later phenotypical events make. By relating individual differences in testosterone levels during fetal life with childhood behavior, Baron-Cohen and his colleagues provide a challenging and well-argued concept of the early power of this hormone to shape our future selves: helping to make us what we are, but sometimes -- as in autism -- with devastating consequences. Combine what this book tells you about testosterone at the dawn our lives with what we know of its later power, and you have a molecule which has truly shaped human history. -- Joe Herbert, Professor of Neuroscience, University of Cambridge

About the Author

Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor in Developmental Psychopathology and Director of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, is the author of Mindblindness (MIT Press, 1997) and The Essential Difference- The Truth about the Male and Female Mind.

Svetlana Lutchmaya received her Ph.D. in 2001 from the the University of Cambridge.

Rebecca Knickmeyer is a doctoral candidate at the Autism Research Centre.

Reviews

"A thoughtful and original analysis of important problems in the history, evolution, and acquisition of language."--Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of *The Language Instinct*, *Words and Rules*, and *The Stuff of Thought* "A lively collection on a new and exciting approach to human reasoning."--Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of *The Language Instinct*, *Words and Rules*, and *The Stuff of Thought* "A lucid presentation of a fascinating and ingenious new body of research." Steven Pinker , Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, author of The Blank Slate, How the Mind Works, and Words and Rules "Kenneth Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser helped rejuvenate the study of argument structure in linguistics, and this important new treatise shows off the insight and elegance of their analyses. It is essential reading for anyone interested in argument structure and the lexicon, and a fitting memorial for the late Ken Hale, one of the twentieth century's most beloved linguists."--Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of *The Language Instinct*, *Words and Rules*, and *The Stuff of Thought* "A lucid presentation of a fascinating and ingenious new body of research."--Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of *The Language Instinct*, *Words and Rules*, and *The Stuff of Thought* "Sex differences are one thing, individual differences are another. The emerging success of using variations in the human genome to explain individuality can blind us to the contributions that later phenotypical events make. By relating individual differences in testosterone levels during fetal life with childhood behavior, Baron-Cohen and his colleagues provide a challenging and well-argued concept of the early power of this hormone to shape our future selves: helping to make us what we are, but sometimes -- as in autism -- with devastating consequences. Combine what this book tells you about testosterone at the dawn our lives with what we know of its later power, and you have a molecule which has truly shaped human history."--Joe Herbert, Professor of Neuroscience, University of Cambridge "*The Cognitive Neurosciences III* is a magnificent accomplishment. It covers topics from ions to consciousness, from reflexes to social psychology. It is authoritative and encyclopedic, but also lively and unafraid of controversy. Michael Gazzaniga, The MIT Press, and the community of cognitive neuroscientists are to be congratulated for assembling this landmark of twentieth-century science and thrilling preview of what we will learn in the twenty-first."--Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of *The Language Instinct*, *Words and Rules*, and *The Stuff of Thought*Please note: This endorsement is identical to Pinker's endorsement for the second edition of the book (with the title changed, of course). He has approved our use of it for the new edition.