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BOOKS:

Herculano-Houzel S (2016) The Human Advantage: A new understanding of how our brain became remarkable. MIT Press, Cambridge.

Herculano-Houzel S (2015) Falando ciência. Um guia para comunicar ciência aos pares e ao público sem arrancar os cabelos. Amazon Digital Services.

Herculano-Houzel S (2009). Pílulas de neurociência para uma vida melhor. Ed. Sextante, Rio de Janeiro.

Herculano-Houzel S (2007). Fique de bem com o seu cérebro. Rio de Janeiro, Editora Sextante / Amazon Digital Services.

Herculano-Houzel S (2007). Por que o bocejo é contagioso? e outras curiosidades da neurociência sobre o cotidiano. Rio de Janeiro, Jorge Zahar Editora / Amazon Digital Services.

Herculano-Houzel S (2005). O cérebro adolescente: a neurociência da transformação da criança em adulto. Rio de Janeiro, Editora Objetiva / Amazon Digital Services.

Herculano-Houzel S (2003). Sexo, Drogas, Rock´n´Roll & Chocolate. O cérebro e os prazeres da vida cotidiana. Rio de Janeiro, Editora Vieira & Lent.

Herculano-Houzel S (2002). O Cérebro Nosso de Cada Dia. Descobertas da Neurociência sobre a vida cotidiana. Rio de Janeiro, Editora Vieira & Lent.

BOOK CHAPTERS:

Herculano-Houzel S (2021) Lifetime Expectancy. In Vonk J, Shackelford TK (eds), Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior, Springer.

Herculano-Houzel S (2021) Comparison of the mental powers of man and the lower animals. In DeSilva J (ed), A Most Interesting Problem. Princeton University Press, Princeton.

Kaas JH, Herculano-Houzel S (2017) What makes the human brain special: key features of brain and neocortex. In Opris I, Casanova MF (eds), The Physics of the Mind and Brain Disorders, Springer, Switzerland.

Herculano-Houzel S (2016) The evolution of evolutionary neuroscience. In Shepherd SV (ed), The Handbook of Evolutionary Neuroscience, Wiley-Blackwell, New York.

Herculano-Houzel S (2016) What primate brains are made of. In Kaas JH (ed), Evolution of the Nervous System, 2nd edition, Volume III (Krubitzer L, ed). Elsevier, London.

Herculano-Houzel S (2016) What modern mammals teach about the cellular composition of early brains and mechanisms of brain evolution. In Kaas JH (ed), Evolution of the Nervous System, 2nd edition, Volume II (Herculano-Houzel S, ed). Elsevier, London.

Herculano-Houzel S (2016) The evolution of sleep. In Kaas JH (ed), Evolution of the Nervous System, 2nd edition, Volume II (Herculano-Houzel S, ed). Elsevier, London.

Dos Santos S, Herculano-Houzel S (2016) Marsupial brains: not as “primitive” as expected. In Kaas JH (ed), Evolution of the Nervous System, 2nd edition, Volume II (Herculano-Houzel S, ed). Elsevier, London.

​Herculano-Houzel S (2016) Remarkable, but not special: What human brains are made of. In Kaas JH (ed), Evolution of the Nervous System, 2nd edition, Volume IV (Preuss T, ed). Elsevier, London.