A leading neuroscientist explores with authority, with imagination, and with unparalleled mastery how the brain constructs the mind and how the brain makes that mind conscious. Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years research...

"Damasio undertakes nothing less than a reconstruction of the natural history of the universe. . . . [A] brave and honest book." —The New York Times Book Review The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation...