Why us?
Subtitle: how science rediscovered the mystery of ourselves
By: James Le Fanu
Publisher: HarperPress
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780007120277
Subjects: Human beings; Popular works; Human evolution; Human genetics; Brain; Humans; Biological Evolution; Genetics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: A Mystery to Ourselves; title: 1. Science Triumphant, Almost; title: 2. Ascent of Man: A Riddle in Two Parts; title: 3. Limits of Science 1: The Quixotic Universe; title: 4. (Evolutionary) 'Reason for Everything': Certainty; title: 5. (Evolutionary) 'Reason for Everything': Doubt; title: 6. Limits of Science 2: The Impenetrable Helix; title: 7. Fall of Man: A Tragedy in Two Acts; title: 8. Limits of Science 3: The Unfathomable Brain; title: 9. Silence; title: 10. Restoring Man to his Pedestal.