Lifelines : Life Beyond the Gene

Informationen zum Autor Steven Rose is Professor of Biology and Director of the Brain and Behaviour Research Group at The Open University! Visiting Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology at University College London! and! jointly with sociologist Hilary Rose! was the Professor of Physic (genetics and society) at Gresham College! London. His previous books include The Chemistry of Life (1996)! Science and Society (with Hilary Rose) (1973)! The Conscious Brain (1973)! Molecules and Minds: Essays on Biology and the Social Order (1988)! and The Making of Memory (1992). The Making of Memory won the 1993 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize and he has received a variety of medals and international awards! most recently the Biochemical Society's special medal for science communication! the Edinburgh Medal and the silver medal of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts. Klappentext In Lifelines! neuroscientist Steven Rose offers a theory of life that insists that we as humans - along with all living creatures - create our own futures! though in circumstances not of our own choosing. Zusammenfassung In Lifelines, neuroscientist Steven Rose offers a theory of life that insists that we as humans - along with all living creatures - create our own futures, though in circumstances not of our own choosing.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Rose, Rose Steven
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.12.2005
• EAN: 9780099468639
• ISBN: 978-0-09-946863-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); popular science, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, Biology, life sciences, Evolutionary Biology