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Lefanu, James

 
9780375421983: Why Us?: How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 037542198X ISBN 13: 9780375421983
Verlag: Pantheon Books, 2009

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A general practitioner in England, Le Fanu finds time to write a weekly column for The Sunday Telegraph and The Daily Telegraph and articles in other periodicals contributing to ongoing debates primarily about the interface between medicine and other aspects of society. Here he explores unanswered--indeed until recently unasked--questions about genetic inheritance and about the workings of the human brain, and what scientific research is now discovering about them. Among his topics are science almost triumphant, the ascent of man, certainty and doubt as the reason for everything, the impenetrable helix, the unfathomable brain, and restoring man to his pedestal. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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James Le Fanu holds a medical degree and writes about medicine and health for The Sunday Telegraph in London. He won The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for science and technology in 2000 for The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine. He lives in England.

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When cosmologists can reliably infer what happened in the first few minutes of the birth of the universe and geologists can measure the movements of vast continents to the nearest centimeter, then the inscrutability of those genetic instructions that should distinguish a human from a fly, or the failure to account for something as elementary as how we recall a telephone number, throws into sharp relief the unfathomability of ourselves. It is as if we, and, indeed, all living things, are in some way different, profounder, and more complex than the physical world to which we belong . . . This is not just a matter of science not yet knowing all the facts; rather, there is the sense that something of immense importance is “missing” that might transform the bare bones of genes into the wondrous diversity of the living world and the monotonous electrical firing of the neurons of the brain into the vast spectrum of sensations and ideas of the human mind.

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Verlag
Pantheon Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
037542198X
ISBN 13 
9780375421983
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
303
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