Why Us?

How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Medical, Nursing, Home & Community Care, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Mind & Body, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
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Author: James Le Fanu ISBN: 9780307378071
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: March 17, 2009
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: James Le Fanu
ISBN: 9780307378071
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: March 17, 2009
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

In this daring treatise on the current state of scientific inquiry, James Le Fanu challenges the common assumption that further progress in genetic research and neuroscience must ultimately explain all there is to know about life and man’s place in the world. On the contrary, he argues, the most recent scientific findings point to an unbridgeable explanatory gap between the genes strung out along the Double Helix and the beauty and diversity of the living world—and between the electrical activity of the brain and the abundant creativity of the human mind. His exploration of these mysteries, and his analysis of where they might lead us in our thinking about the nature and purpose of human existence, form the impassioned and riveting heart of Why Us?

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In this daring treatise on the current state of scientific inquiry, James Le Fanu challenges the common assumption that further progress in genetic research and neuroscience must ultimately explain all there is to know about life and man’s place in the world. On the contrary, he argues, the most recent scientific findings point to an unbridgeable explanatory gap between the genes strung out along the Double Helix and the beauty and diversity of the living world—and between the electrical activity of the brain and the abundant creativity of the human mind. His exploration of these mysteries, and his analysis of where they might lead us in our thinking about the nature and purpose of human existence, form the impassioned and riveting heart of Why Us?

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