Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0062507893, Paperback)

Robert Ornstein, psychologist, neurobioligist, and best-selling author, builds on the dazzling observations of modern genetics,biology, and psychology to offer a brilliant, witty, and wonderfully informative science of the self. Fast, fun, friendly and with the power to transform the way we see ourselves, others, and the world around us, The Roots of the Self unravels age-old mysteries and reveals untold possibilities.  The result is “an intriguing and edifying meditation on how and why we have become the most individuated species.”