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Bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the story of how the brain came to be.

'I found this book amazing' Daniel Kahneman, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & Slow

The entirety of the human brain's 4-billion-year story can be…

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This amazing book provides a clear, thorough, and engaging account of how intelligence arose from primordial soup. Far and away my favorite book of 2024 (and one of my favorites overall).

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The Rosewood Penny by J.S. Fields,

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The dragons of Yuro have been hunted to extinction.

On a small, isolated island, in a reclusive forest, lives bandit leader Marani and her brother Jacks. With their outlaw band they rob from the rich to feed themselves, raiding carriages and dodging the occasional vindictive…

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