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WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?

Book number: 91131 Product format: Paperback Author: BRIAN CLEGG

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Sub-titled 'The Science of What Makes You You' the book gets right to the heart of what makes us tick. Popular science master Brian Clegg investigates what makes you the unique individual that you are. From the atomic level through life itself to consciousness, genetics and personality, we explore how your DNA, your memories, your flesh and bone has come to be. Full of fascinating true stories featuring royal ancestors, stellar deaths, real-life hobbits, and a self-reproducing crayfish to name a few, this wide-ranging exploration is a one-of-a-kind voyage of 'self' discovery. Chapters include Exponential Doubling, Chemical Components of You, The Cosmologist's Time Machine, The Star Dust Factories, The Life Thermodynamic, Feeding the World, Climate Change is Happening, Becoming A Mega-Brain, On Automatic Pilot, Going Batty, Words At the Speed of Light, Inhuman Computers, Polls Aren't Facts, Living in Chaos, Genes and Pathways, You Are What You Eat and more. 240pp, illus. paperback.

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ISBN 9781785786600

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