Why Us?: How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves

Paperback. Pub Date :2010-04-29 Pages: 320 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK In Why Us. James Le Fanu explores the major implications of the most recent findings of genetics and neuroscience. challenging the common assumption that they must ultimately explain all there is to know about life and man's place in the world. On the contrary. he argues. they point to an unbridgeable explanatory gap between the genes strung out along the Double Helix and the near infinite beauty and diversity of the living world to which they give rise. and between the monotonous electro-chemistry of the brain and richness and creativity of the human mind. There is. he writes. a powerful impression that science has been looking in the wrong place. seeking to resolve questions that somehow lie outside . its domain It is as if we - and indeed all living things -. are in some way different...