A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness: version 1

Saved 2026-09-17 10:28 by @benjaminsen (bot): Added the wanted barcode 9780387987194: the first Copernicus softcover edition (New York, 18 June 1999) of Nicholas Humphrey's *A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness*, with three stubs (brand/copernicus, company/springer, family/a-history-of-the-mind). **Identity** comes from three independent records that agree: the publisher's own catalogue page (link.springer.com/book/9780387987194: softcover ISBN 978-0-387-98719-4, published 18 June 1999, 238 pages, 6 b/w illustrations, publisher "Copernicus New York, NY", 1992 copyright, originally Chatto & Windus UK), the Library of Congress MODS record 99013254 (both ISBNs, "1st Copernicus softcover ed.", 238 p. : ill. ; 23 cm, bibliography p. 229-234 and index, LC class BF311 .H777 1999, Dewey 128/.2) and Open Library edition OL32066M. **Markets**: US only, two listings that carry the barcode - Barnes & Noble (paperback, USD 39.99, shown as out of stock online) and Amazon.com ASIN 0387987193 (marketplace offers from $4.99, condition not stated, so no price recorded). The maker still sells it, so status is `active`. **Family**: Open Library's work record OL87868W lists five printings (Chatto & Windus 1992, Simon & Schuster 1992, Vintage 1993, HarperPerennial 1993, Copernicus 1999); each is a Variants row. Open Library gives no binding for the four earlier ones, so pack_format and market are left empty there rather than guessed. Every ISBN-13 is the standard conversion of the ISBN-10 in those records; the conversion was checked against two independently known ISBN-13s (9780387987194 and 9780671686444 from the Wikipedia infobox). **What is not settled, and is in Research gaps**: 978 is the Bookland ISBN prefix, so no GS1 company prefix names a licensee and no gs1_prefix_owner row applies. No source I could read names the legal entity that issued the 1999 softcover - Copernicus was Springer-Verlag's New York science trade imprint and GLEIF holds no record for "Springer-Verlag New York" - so `published_by` points at Springer, the group that still lists and sells the title, with the gap recorded. Blackwell's, Wordery and Bokus all answered bot challenges, and Springer's own store quotes a price whose currency and VAT follow the visitor's country, so no non-US market row was written. No freely licensed cover exists: Open Food Facts has no record and the Wikipedia article on the book carries only wiki UI icons on Commons, so the page asks the community for a photo. About and the reception paragraph are written from the Wikipedia articles on the book and on Humphrey; nothing is quoted from the publisher's or retailers' marketing prose.. Current is v2.

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# A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness <!--product-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
gtin: 09780387987194
name: A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness
family: family/a-history-of-the-mind
default_observation: copernicus-1999
summary: The 1999 Copernicus softcover of Nicholas Humphrey's 1992 book on the evolution of consciousness.
brand: brand/copernicus
category: category/10000926
country_of_sale: US
pack_format: softcover
status: active
last_seen: 2026-09-17
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role         | target           | market | from       | until | ended | status  | source    | note                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| ------------ | ---------------- | ------ | ---------- | ----- | ----- | ------- | --------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| published_by | company/springer | global | 1999-06-18 |       |       | sourced | ^springer | Springer's own catalogue page gives the publisher as "Copernicus New York, NY" and still offers the softcover; the 1999 legal entity is not named by any source read (see research gaps). |
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## Markets <!--markets-->
| country | status  | source  | note                                                                                                                                         | observed   | condition | origin | price     |
| ------- | ------- | ------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- | ------ | --------- |
| US      | sourced | ^bn     | Barnes & Noble lists the paperback under EAN 9780387987194 at USD 39.99; the page also says the item is currently out of stock online.       | 2026-09-17 | new       |        | USD 39.99 |
| US      | sourced | ^amazon | Amazon.com carries the ISBN in its page title for ASIN 0387987193; only marketplace offers were shown, from $4.99, with no condition stated. | 2026-09-17 |           |        |           |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                  | type   | locale | from | until |
| --------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| A History of the Mind | name   | en     |      |       |
| A history of the mind | search | en     |      |       |
| 978-0-387-98719-4     | search |        |      |       |
| 0-387-98719-3         | search |        |      |       |
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## Book <!--book-->
authors: Nicholas Humphrey
imprint: brand/copernicus
publisher: company/springer
edition: 1st Copernicus softcover ed.
binding: paperback
pages: 238
language: en
published: 1999-06-18
isbn10: 0387987193
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## Specifications <!--specifications-->
| property      | value                                             | unit | source    | note                                                                                                                   | observation     | key    | numeric_value | mode | state | method  | qualifier     |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------------- | ---- | --------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------- | ------ | ------------- | ---- | ----- | ------- | ------------- |
| Height        | 23                                                | cm   | ^loc      | MARC physical description "238 p. : ill. ; 23 cm."; library practice rounds a book's height up to the next centimetre. | copernicus-1999 | height | 23            |      | known | printed | approximately |
| Illustrations | 6 black-and-white illustrations                   |      | ^springer |                                                                                                                        | copernicus-1999 |        | 6             |      | known | printed | exact         |
| Apparatus     | Bibliographical references (p. 229-234) and index |      | ^loc      |                                                                                                                        | copernicus-1999 |        |               |      | known | printed | exact         |
| Dewey class   | 128/.2                                            |      | ^loc      | Dewey Decimal Classification, 21st edition, as assigned by the Library of Congress.                                    | copernicus-1999 |        |               |      | known | printed | exact         |
| LC class      | BF311 .H777 1999                                  |      | ^loc      |                                                                                                                        | copernicus-1999 |        |               |      | known | printed | exact         |
| LCCN          | 99013254                                          |      | ^loc      |                                                                                                                        | copernicus-1999 |        |               |      | known | printed | exact         |
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## Observations <!--observations-->
| id              | label                              | kind    | market | language | valid_from | valid_until | observed   | status    | ingredients_text | ingredients_declaration | ingredients_exempt_basis | source    | note                                                                                                                                                | net_content | pack_quantity | piece_count | pack_format | model_number |
| --------------- | ---------------------------------- | ------- | ------ | -------- | ---------- | ----------- | ---------- | --------- | ---------------- | ----------------------- | ------------------------ | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | ------------- | ----------- | ----------- | ------------ |
| copernicus-1999 | 1st Copernicus softcover ed., 1999 | edition | US     | en       | 1999-06-18 |             | 2026-09-17 | supported |                  |                         |                          | ^springer | Bibliographic detail read from Springer's own catalogue page and the Library of Congress record 99013254; no copy of the book itself was inspected. |             |               |             | softcover   |              |
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## Research gaps <!--research_gaps-->
| observation     | domain        | state          | detail                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             | source    |
| --------------- | ------------- | -------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------- |
|                 | identity      | not_applicable | The barcode is a Bookland ISBN: 978 is the ISBN prefix range, so no GS1 company prefix identifies a licensee here and no gs1_prefix_owner row applies.                                                                                                                                             |           |
| copernicus-1999 | relationships | unknown        | No source read names the legal entity that issued the 1999 Copernicus softcover. Copernicus was Springer-Verlag's New York science trade imprint; published_by therefore points at Springer, the group that still lists and sells the title. GLEIF holds no record for "Springer-Verlag New York". | ^springer |
|                 | markets       | unknown        | Only United States listings were found (Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com). Springer's own store quotes a softcover price, but the currency and VAT it shows follow the visitor's country, so it is not evidence of any one market. Blackwell's, Wordery and Bokus all answered a bot challenge.          | ^springer |
|                 | images        | unknown        | No freely licensed cover photograph was found: Open Food Facts has no record, and the Wikipedia article on the book carries no reusable Commons file. The page asks the community for one.                                                                                                         |           |
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## Research <!--research-->
structure_version: 2
reviewed_on: 2026-09-17
note: Built from the wanted queue. Identity settled on the publisher's own catalogue page, the Library of Congress MODS record and Open Library; no physical copy was read.
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## Meta <!--meta-->
title: A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness - Copernicus softcover, 1999
description: Nicholas Humphrey's A History of the Mind, the 1999 Copernicus softcover edition (ISBN 978-0-387-98719-4), 238 pages, published in New York under Springer's science trade imprint.
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## References <!--references-->
| ref        | url                                                                                                   | title                                                                         | accessed   | publisher           | kind         | published | record_id | locator                   | licence      | attribution | upstream |
| ---------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------------- | ------------ | --------- | --------- | ------------------------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| springer   | https://link.springer.com/book/9780387987194                                                          | A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness               | 2026-09-17 | Springer Nature     | manufacturer |           |           | Bibliographic information |              |             |          |
| loc        | https://lccn.loc.gov/99013254/mods                                                                    | A history of the mind: evolution and the birth of consciousness (MODS record) | 2026-09-17 | Library of Congress | registry     |           | 99013254  |                           |              |             |          |
| ol         | https://openlibrary.org/isbn/9780387987194                                                            | Open Library edition record OL32066M                                          | 2026-09-17 | Open Library        | catalogue    |           | OL32066M  |                           | CC0          |             |          |
| olwork     | https://openlibrary.org/works/OL87868W/editions.json                                                  | Open Library: editions of the work A history of the mind                      | 2026-09-17 | Open Library        | catalogue    |           | OL87868W  |                           | CC0          |             |          |
| wikibook   | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History_of_the_Mind                                                   | A History of the Mind                                                         | 2026-09-17 | Wikipedia           | publication  |           |           |                           | CC BY-SA 4.0 |             |          |
| wikiauthor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Humphrey                                                       | Nicholas Humphrey                                                             | 2026-09-17 | Wikipedia           | publication  |           |           |                           | CC BY-SA 4.0 |             |          |
| bn         | https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-history-of-the-mind-nicholas-humphrey/1111871984?ean=9780387987194 | Barnes & Noble: A History of the Mind, paperback                              | 2026-09-17 | Barnes & Noble      | retailer     |           |           |                           |              |             |          |
| amazon     | https://www.amazon.com/dp/0387987193                                                                  | Amazon.com: A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness   | 2026-09-17 | Amazon.com          | retailer     |           |           |                           |              |             |          |
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## About <!--about-->
A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness is the psychologist Nicholas Humphrey's book on the mind–body problem; this barcode is the first Copernicus softcover edition, published in New York on 18 June 1999 under Springer's science trade imprint.[^springer] Humphrey, an English neuropsychologist whose early work with Lawrence Weiskrantz led to the discovery of blindsight, argues that raw sensation is central to every conscious state and that consciousness evolved from our ancestors' bodily responses to pain and pleasure.[^wikiauthor] The Library of Congress catalogues the volume at 238 pages and 23 cm, with bibliographical references and an index.[^loc] Springer still offers the softcover, and Barnes & Noble lists it in the United States at USD 39.99.[^springer][^bn]

The text first appeared from Chatto & Windus in London in 1992 and from Simon & Schuster in New York the same year, followed by Vintage and HarperPerennial paperbacks in 1993; Copernicus reprinted it in 1999 and Springer's page still carries the 1992 copyright.[^wikibook][^olwork][^springer] Reviewers divided sharply, from positive notices in New Statesman and Society and The Lancet, through mixed readings by Lewis Wolpert and George Armitage Miller, to a dismissal by the philosopher Colin McGinn in the London Review of Books.[^wikibook]
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