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Terrence Deacon, Ph.D. Esalen CTR Conference Affiliation(s): Evolutionary Theory Terrence (Terry) Deacon, Ph.D. (Harvard 1984), is Associate Professor in Biological Anthropology at Boston University and a member of the BU Neurosciences program. He was associate professor of Anthropology at Harvard from 1984 to 1992, and has been research Associate at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School and associate professor at Boston University from 1992 to present. Deacon's current research focuses on the evolution of the brain, and he is best known for his work on the evolution of human language abilities. His book The Symbolic Species summarizes this research and its relationship to problems in evolutionary biology and the neural and cognitive sciences. Deacon's research also includes cross-species transplantation of embryonic brain tissue both to study evolutionary and developmental brain differences and to develop new cell replacement therapies for brain damage, some of which have found their way into medical procedures. And he has contributed to embryonic stem cell research, showing that blastula-derived stem cells can be induced to become neurons in a host brain. He is currently completing a new book "Homunculus" exploring the relationship between multilevel coevolutionary processes and consciousness.
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