Your Future Self: a Journey to the Frontiers of Molecular Medicine

  • Hank Whittemore
Thames & Hudson, $27.50

The trebling of brain size in hominid evolution from Australopithecus to Homo sapiens is explored in this piece of “Brainart” by Evian Gordon, head of the Cognitive Neuroscience Unit at the University of Sydney, Australia. Entitled “Our shared evolutionary history”, it comes fromYour Future Self: a Journey to the Frontiers of Molecular Medicine (Thames & Hudson, $27.50) by the science popularizer and documentary-maker Hank Whittemore. The book presents images from molecular and cellular biology for non-scientists in an attempt to inspire awe in the unfolding revelation of our inner universe.