The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge - Couverture rigide

Narby, Jeremy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0575066148 ISBN 13 : 9780575066144

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998

Synopsis

This is an adventure in science and imagination which tracks a young French anthropologist through the Amazonian rain forests, the libraries of Europe and the world's most arcane scientific journals, following strange clues, intuitions and extraordinary coincidences, to reveal scientific data. The beginning of Narby's exploration lay with the Peruvian Indians, who claim that their knowledge of chemistry has its origins in plant-induced hallucinations. He also demonstrates that indigenous and ancient peoples have known for millennia, and have even drawn, the double-helix structure, something conventional science discovered only in 1953. The book opens new perspectives on biology, anthropology and the limits of rationalism.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

Jeremy Narby, Ph.D. is the author of The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge. He lives in Switzerland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0575066148
• ISBN 13: 9780575066144
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible