Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built

“Harris’s engaging account of human brain development moves with dispatch through the key experiments in the field. His tone is warm and welcoming as he shares his wonder at discoveries already made and his optimism about those still to come. Harris captures the excitement, dare I say joy, of these discoveries in a way that is accessible to all readers.”—Susan E. Fahrbach, author of Developmental Neuroscience

“During the past hundred years, developmental biologists have discovered many of the astonishingly cunning and counterintuitive secrets of how a mere fertilized egg develops into a baby with all its immense numbers of parts in all the right places. This is the magical story Harris tells in this authoritative book.”—Patricia S. Churchland, author of Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality

“Harris takes readers on a journey across space and time in the unfolding multiverse inside the fetal head. Combining humor with state-of-the-art science, he tells the stories of the scientists who pushed the frontiers of our understanding and crafts a tale that conveys extensive knowledge and leaves you smiling.”—Moriah E. Thomason, New York University Grossman School of Medicine