Nominator's statement

This work is probably over-rated; stripped of the grandiose interpretation, what is comprehensible does not seem to be all that new or substantive.

comments

• The foundational text on the theory of neuronal group selection, and more generally on the brain as a somatic selection system. This is part of a three-part series, preceded by _Topogiology_ and followed by _The Remembered Present_. A popular exposition is available in _Bright Air, Brilliant Fire_.