Why us?
Subtitle: how science rediscovered the mystery of ourselves
By: James Le Fanu.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780375421983
Subjects: Genes; Brain; Evolution (Biology); Human beings
Description: 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."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: A mystery to ourselves; title: Science triumphant, almost; title: The ascent of man : a riddle in two parts; title: The limits of science 1 : the quixotic universe; title: The (evolutionary) 'reason for everything' : certainty; title: The (evolutionary) 'reason for everything' : doubt; title: The limits of science 2 : the impenetrable helix; title: The fall of man : a tragedy in Acts; title: The limits of science 3 : the unfathomable brain; title: The silence; title: Restoring man to his pedestal.