An edition of Why us?
(2009)
Why us?
how science rediscovered the mystery of ourselves
by James Le Fanu
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Describes how in the recent past science has come face-to-face with two seemingly unanswerable questions concerning the nature of genetic inheritance and the workings of the brain-- questions that suggest there is, after all, "more than we can know."
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Brain, Evolution (Biology), Genes, Human beings, Human evolution, Human genetics, Evolution, Biology| Edition | Availability |
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Why Us?: How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves
2013, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
in English
0007380054 9780007380053
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Why Us?: How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves
2010, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
in English
0007120281 9780007120284
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Why us?: how science rediscovered the mystery of ourselves
2010, Vintage Books
in English
- 1st Vintage Books ed.
1400030544 9781400030545
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Why us?: how science rediscovered the mystery of ourselves
2009, HarperPress
in English
0007120273 9780007120277
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Introduction: A Mystery to Ourselves
1. Science Triumphant, Almost
2. Ascent of Man: A Riddle in Two Parts
3. Limits of Science 1: The Quixotic Universe
4. (Evolutionary) 'Reason for Everything': Certainty
5. (Evolutionary) 'Reason for Everything': Doubt
6. Limits of Science 2: The Impenetrable Helix
7. Fall of Man: A Tragedy in Two Acts
8. Limits of Science 3: The Unfathomable Brain
9. Silence
10. Restoring Man to his Pedestal.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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