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Janus: A Summing Up

Hardcover â€Ē 1978 â€Ē English

Janus: A Summing Up

By Arthur Koestler

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About the book

The most adventourous, polymathic - and readable - scientific populariser of the age offers in Janus a summing up of a quarter of a century's study and speculations on the life sciences and their philosophic implications. Koestler has an interesting theme to propose. It is this; the human brain has developed a terrible biological flaw, such that it is working now against the survival of the race. Something has "snapped" inside the brain. It is no longer necessarily a function which will lead us ...Show more

Philosophy and Religion

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9780091321000

Published year

1978

Language

English

Original title

Janus: A Summing Up

Format

Hardcover

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