Terrence W. Deacon
University of California, Berkeley
105 Papers
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Terrence W. Deacon is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Transplantation & Biology. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 100 publications. Previous affiliations of Terrence W. Deacon include Harvard University & Boston University.
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The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain
Terrence W. Deacon
- 01 Jan 1997
TL;DR: Deacon as mentioned in this paper provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness, drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a wealth of insights into the significance of symbolic thinking: from the coevolutionary exchange between language and brains over two million years of hominid evolution to the ethical repercussions that followed man's newfound access to other people's thoughts and emotions.
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Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter
Terrence W. Deacon
- 21 Nov 2011
TL;DR: Incomplete Nature as discussed by the authors is a masterwork that brings together science and philosophy, revealing how our desires, feelings, and intentions can be understood in terms of the physical world, and how to understand how life and consciousness emerged.
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Metabolic hypothesis for human altriciality
TL;DR: Evidence is presented that challenges the importance of pelvic morphology and mechanics in the evolution of human gestation and altriciality and suggests that limits to maternal metabolism are the primary constraints on human gestation length and fetal growth.
Transplanted fetal striatum in Huntington's disease: Phenotypic development and lack of pathology
Thomas B. Freeman,Francesca Cicchetti,Robert A. Hauser,Terrence W. Deacon,Xiao-Jiang Li,Steven M. Hersch,G. Michael Nauert,Paul R. Sanberg,Jeffrey H. Kordower,Samuel Saporta,Ole Isacson +10 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that grafts derived from human fetal striatal tissue can survive, develop, and are unaffected by the disease process, at least for 18 months, after transplantation into a patient with Huntington's disease.
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