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Killers in the brain

P. Day
This selection of essays offers an account of thinking in areas of science and technology. The subjects are wide-ranging, from Simon Conway Morris discussing the fossils of the Burgess Shale, and a scientific exploration of the singing voice, to Robert Matthews' scientific analysis of Murphy's Law.
Print Book, English, 1999
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999
160 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780198505402, 019850540X
40882978
The Philosopher's Tree: Faraday today at the Royal Institution; The fossils of the Burgess Shale and the Cambrian 'explosion'; Killers in the brain: New discoveries in neurodegenerative disease; The science of Murphy's Law; God, time, and cosmology; The human singing voice; Asthma and allergy: disorders of civilization; The Nino and its significance