the cosmic serpent: dna and the origins of knowledge  <p>this adventure in science and imagination, which the <i>medical tribune</i> said might herald "a copernican revolution for the life sciences", leads the listener through unexplored jungles and uncharted aspects of mind to the heart of knowledge. in a first-person narrative of scientific discovery that opens new perspectives on biology, anthropology, and the limits of rationalism, <i>the cosmic serpent</i> reveals how startlingly different the world around us appears when we open our minds to it. </p>