What Do You Think You Are?, Brian Clegg
What Do You Think You Are?, Brian Clegg
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What Do You Think You Are?
The Science of What Makes You You

Author: Brian Clegg

Narrator: James Langton

Unabridged: 7 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/14/2020

Synopsis

'Gets right to the heart of what makes us what we are. Read it!' Angela Saini, author of Inferior and Superior: The Return of Race SciencePopular science master Brian Clegg’s new book is an entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you. From the atomic level, through life and energy to genetics and personality, it explores how the billions of particles which make up you – your DNA, your skin, your memories – have come to be.It starts with the present-day reader and follows a number of trails to discover their origins: how the atoms in your body were created and how they got to you in space and time, the sources of things you consume, how the living cells of your body developed, where your massive brain and consciousness originated, how human beings evolved and, ultimately, what your personal genetic history reveals.

About Brian Clegg

Brian Clegg’s most recent books for Icon are Professor Maxwell’s Duplicitous Demon and Conundrum. He has also written Big Data and Gravitational Waves for the Hot Science series. He is editor of popularscience.co.uk and blogs at brianclegg.blogspot.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by martin

Entertaining, informative and humorous, but…. Writing readable science books for the layperson is clearly no easy matter and Brian Clegg does it extremely well. This is an enjoyable read as well as being educational. The problem for me was that it was perhaps a little too superficial and even glib at......more

Goodreads review by J Grimsey

This is a very interesting book giving a popular but not prejudiced account of the scientific argument of Nature v Nurture. It is very thoughtful but emphasises the scientific rather than the social scientific. This was not what I expected ... but never mind......more

Goodreads review by Richard

An entertaining slice of pop science. The author explains (or does as far as he can) what makes who we are, from the fundamental building blocks of atoms and the chemistry that brings it together, to the evolution of all life that led to us (and all the other species, we’re nothing special and we’re......more

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