Book Cover The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge

The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge

of Jeremy Narby

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This adventure in science and imagination, which the Medical Tribune said might herald "a Copernican revolution for the life sciences," leads the reader through unexplored jungles and uncharted aspects of mind to the heart of knowledge.In a first-person narrative of scientific discovery that opens new perspectives on biology, anthropology, and the limits of rationalism, The Cosmic Serpent reveals how startlingly different the world around us appears when we open our minds to it.

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Book Details

  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 257 pages
  • Publisher TarcherPerigee
  • Publication Date April 5th 1999
  • First Publication 10/29/98
  • Language English
  • ISBN 9780874779646
  • Edition Not informed
  • Category Science & Technology
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