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Stepping effortlessly from myth to cutting-edge science, Mutants gives a brilliant narrative account of our genetic code and the captivating people whose bodies have revealed it a French convent girl who found herself changing sex at puberty; children who, echoing Homer s Cyclops, are born with a single eye in the middle of their foreheads; a village of long-lived Croatian dwarves; one family, whose bodies were entirely covered with hair, was kept at the Burmese royal court for four generations and gave Darwin...

-Was ist normal? Und wer ist abnorm? - Wir alle sind abnorm. Aber einige von uns sind es mehr als andere.- Dieses Buch handelt - in den Worten seines Autors - -von der Entstehung und Entwicklung des menschlichen Korpers. Es berichtet von den Vorgangen, die es einer einzelnen Zelle in einem versteckten Winkel der Gebarmutter erlauben, sich in einen Embryo, einen Fetus, ein Kind und schlielich einen Erwachsenen zu verwandeln. Es gibt eine vorlaufige und unvollstandige, aber klar umrissene Antwort auf die Frage: Wie werden wir, was wir sind?- Die Grundgestalt unserer Korpers und seine Entstehung...

Full of fascinating and bizarre cases of genetic mutation and irregularity, 'Mutants' is an amazing exploration of the human form in all its beautiful and unique guises.

In the Eastern Aegean lies an island of forested hills and olive groves, with streams, marshes and a lagoon that nearly cuts the land in two. It was here, over 2,000 years ago, that Aristotle came to work. Aristotle was the greatest philosopher of all time, and his work looms over the history of Western thought. But he was also a biologist who explored the mysteries of the natural world. With the help of fishermen, hunters and farmers, he catalogued the animals in his world, dissected them, and observed their behaviour. In 'The Lagoon', Armand Marie Leroi recovers Aristotle's science.

The remarkable but neglected story of Aristotle's founding role in the scientific study of nature

Both a travelogue and a study of the origins of science, The Lagoon shows how an ancient thinker still has much to teach us today. Aristotle's philosophy looms large over the history of Western thought, but the subject he most loved was biology. He wrote vast treatises on animals, dissecting them, classifying them, recording how they lived, fed, and bred. He founded a science. It can even be said that he founded science itself.

In this luminous book, acclaimed...