Genius Within: Discovering the Intelligence of Every Living Thing - Hardcover

Vertosick, Frank T.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151005516 ISBN 13: 9780151005512

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Can bacteria be as smart as we are? Can ants think? And fish? Yes, says Frank Vertosick, a neurosurgeon who combats our elitism about intelligence in this brilliant book.
A gifted writer and author of the widely praised Why We Hurt, Vertosick shows us that intelligence--the ability to react to the outside world, to change behavior, and survive-can be found wherever life exists. He demonstrates the keen intelligence of our immune system, how lowly bacteria mutate and outwit antibiotics, and how canny cancer cells elude our natural defenses.
A fascinating journey through worlds of unknown science and an unsettling argument against our valuing of brain intelligence above all else, The Genius Within tells a fascinating scientific story, one that could shake our ethical foundation to its core.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Frank T. Vertosick, Jr., M.D., is a neurosurgeon and the author of Why We Hurt and When the Air Hits Your Brain. A former president of the Pennsylvania Neurosurgical Society and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, he lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Frank T. Vertosick, Jr., M.D., is a neurosurgeon and the author of Why We Hurt and When the Air Hits Your Brain. A former president of the Pennsylvania Neurosurgical Society and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, he lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0151005516
• ISBN 13: 9780151005512
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368
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