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Steven Rose offers a bold new perspective on biology that acknowledges the essentially complex nature of life.

About the Author

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.

Reviews

In the current intellectual and political climate, there is a desperate need to return to the real biology of real organisms, including human beings, in a real world. For the general reader wanting to know how this might be done, there can be no better guide than Rose's book
*New Scientist*

Written with admirable clarity and force... I can't imagine anyone who wanted enlightenment coming away from this book empty-handed
*Spectator*

Essential reading for anyone interested in biology and evolution
*Times Higher Education Supplement*

There is no denying his skill as a writer...a flowing, elegant scientific treatise
*Observer*