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Lifelines

Life Beyond the Gene

Steven Rose

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English
Vintage
01 March 2006
'Rose eloquently achieves his aim of reintroducing a philosophy to biology' Sunday Telegraph

In Lifelines, neuroscientist Steven Rose offers a theory of life that insists that we as humans - along with all living creatures - create our own futures, though in circumstances not of our own choosing. Placing the organism at the centre of life, Rose directly confronts the ideology of reductionism and ultra-Darwinism, with its headline-grabbing insistence that all aspects of human life from sexual preference to infanticide, political orientation to violence, make domination to alcoholism, are in our genes and are the inevitable consequence of natural selection. Rose asserts that such claims are not merely socially naive, but fundamentally misunderstand the active and irreducible nature of living processes.
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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 22mm
Weight:   245g
ISBN:   9780099468639
ISBN 10:   0099468638
Pages:   352
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Steven Rose is Professor of Biology at the Open University and joint Professor of Physic at London's Gresham College with his wife, Hilary Rose.

Reviews for Lifelines: Life Beyond the Gene

In the current intellectual and political climate, there is a desperate need to return to the real biology of real organisms, including human beings, in a real world. For the general reader wanting to know how this might be done, there can be no better guide than Rose's book * New Scientist * Written with admirable clarity and force... I can't imagine anyone who wanted enlightenment coming away from this book empty-handed * Spectator * Essential reading for anyone interested in biology and evolution * Times Higher Education Supplement * There is no denying his skill as a writer...a flowing, elegant scientific treatise * Observer *


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