The Forgotten Teachers: How Nature Wrote the Story of Life
A neuroscientist and an artist trace the route from mitochondria to minds, treating evolution as a sequence of lessons rather than a ladder anyone was climbing.
Neuroscientist Brian Isett and artist Claudia Biçen trace the route from mitochondria to minds, treating evolution as a sequence of lessons rather than a ladder. An illustrated account of how the body’s oldest arrangements still shape what it is like to be a person.
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Neuroscientist Brian Isett and artist Claudia Biçen celebrate the wonder of how we went from mitochondria to minds in The Forgotten Teachers: How Nature Wrote the Story of Life (public library) — a love letter to that place between knowledge and mystery, where science illuminates the spirituality of nature.
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