This book discusses the ways in which science, the touchstone of reliable knowledge in modern society, changed dramatically in the second half of the 20th c

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A companion book to the National Geographic TV series uses brain teasers and optical illusions to shed light on the workings of the human brain.

Dr Francis S. Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists, working at the cutting edge of the study of DNA, the code of