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Editorial Reviews from Amazon.com: How is the human brain like
the AIDS epidemic? Ask physicist Albert-László Barabási
and he'll explain them both in terms of networks of individual nodes connected
via complex but understandable relationships. Linked: The New Science of
Networks is his bright, accessible guide to the fundamentals underlying
neurology, epidemiology, Internet traffic, and many other fields united
by complexity. Barabási's gift for concrete, nonmathematical explanations
and penchant for eccentric humor would make the book thoroughly enjoyable
even if the content weren't engaging. But the results of Barabási's
research into the behavior of networks are deeply compelling. Not all networks
are created equal, he says, and he shows how even fairly robust systems
like the Internet could be crippled by taking out a few super-connected
nodes, or hubs. His mathematical descriptions of this behavior are helping
doctors, programmers, and security professionals design systems better
suited to their needs. Linked presents the next step in complexity theory--from
understanding chaos to practical applications.
Editorial Review from Amazon.com: This book is an entry into the
fierce current debate among psycholinguists, neuroscientists, and evolutionary
theorists about the nature and origins of human language. A prominent neuroscientist
here takes up the Darwinian case, using data seldom considered by psycholinguists
and neurolinguists to argue that human language--though more sophisticated
than all other forms of animal communication--is not a qualitatively different
ability from all forms of animal communication, does not require a quantum
evolutionary leap to explain it, and is not unified in a single "language
instinct." Using clinical evidence from speech-impaired patients, functional
neuroimaging, and evolutionary biology to make his case, Philip Lieberman
contends that human language is not a single separate module but a functional
neurological system made up of many separate abilities. Language remains
as it began, Lieberman argues: a device for coping with the world. But
in a blow to human narcissism, he makes the case that this most remarkable
human ability is a by-product of our remote reptilian ancestors' abilities
to dodge hazards, seize opportunities, and live to see another day.