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How to Grow a Human : Adventures in Who We are and How We are Made, eAudiobook MP3 eaudioBook

How to Grow a Human : Adventures in Who We are and How We are Made eAudiobook MP3

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A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a 'self' in the face of new scientific developments in genetic editing, cloning and neural downloading.After seeing his own cells used to grow clumps of new neurons - essentially mini-brains - Philip Ball begins to examine the concepts of identity and consciousness.

Delving into humanity's deep evolutionary past to look at how complex creatures like us emerged from single-celled life, he offers a new perspective on how humans think about ourselves.In an age when we are increasingly encouraged to regard the 'self' as an abstract sequence of genetic information, or as a pattern of neural activity that might be 'downloaded' to a computer, he return us to the body - to flesh and blood - and anchors a conception of personhood in this unique and ephemeral mortal coil.

How to Build a Human brings us back to ourselves - but in doing so, it challenges old preconceptions and values.

It asks us to rethink how we exist in the world.

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