Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-329) and index.
FOUR: The brain -- Escape from stupidworld -- The master juggler -- A sponge for knowledge -- Reining in the runaway?
ONE: The dilemmas -- Eve's companions -- An obsession with race -- An obsession with God
THREE: The genes -- Two kinds of Geneticist -- Two kinds of gene -- Pulling the plug -- The love song of the fruit fly and other amazing gene stories
TWO: The bones -- The crystal brain -- The birth canal of our services -- The latest steps
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You might not suspect it, but we are currently living through a revolution in scientific knowledge. What we know about the human brain's workings and about the earliest history of our distant humanoid ancestors changes almost weekly. This book looks at current scientific theory.