Description
A brilliant reimagining of modern science and ancient mythology, and of what it means to be human.
About the Author
Oren Harman is the author of The Man Who Invented the Chromosome and The Price of Altruism, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for best book in Science and Technology. He has a doctorate from Oxford University, is the Chair of the Graduate Program in Science, Technology and Society, and a Professor of the History of Science at Bar Ilan University.
Reviews
Daring, learned and humane... A revelatory restoration of wonder' -- Stephen Greenblatt
A dazzling voyage of the imagination, the story of our origins from the Big Bang to planets to life, told in the language and style of an epic poem. Intelligent, provocative, playful, and beautifully written -- Alan Lightman
More bizarre, more incredible than the ancient myths, the myths of science told by Harman are based on exacting and arduous research. It is a book that will bring the poet to science, and the scientist to poetry -- Eva Jablonka, author of Evolution of Four Dimensions
Brilliant. It is a wholly original contribution to the way science ought to become part of the way we think about the universe and talk about the meaning of life. A moving and provocative achievement -- Leon Botstein, President of Bard College
Evolutions is innovative precisely because it eschews speculative fictions in favour of strictly factual tales cast in mythic mode... Remarkable for its ambitions, as well as its persuasive mediation on the conjoint trajectories of myth and science' * TLS *
Daring and beautifully written, poetic and at times funny, very learned... You cannot begin to do it justice until you've read it' -- Paul Ross, TalkRADIO
Book Information
ISBN 9781788547581
Author Oren Harman
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Apollo
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC