Instructive and keen book on a brain - striking instrument with inexhaustible and far yet not unriddled possibilities. Tracing human life from conception to death, an author discusses a wide circle to those: infancy and value of paternal behavior, pubescence, gender identity, moral, aggression, free agency, religiousness, memory, aging. Dick of Свааб (1944) is a known worldwide scientist, in flow of thirty years the heading institute of Netherlands of brain| now manages the group of researchers in the institute of Netherlands of нейробиологии. In Netherlands book of явлется by the scientific best seller (from 2010 it is sold more than 300 000 экзепляров). She is translated into a few foreign languages. Intended not only for a wide reader but also for specialists.