Fragile Species

by Thomas (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1996

  $15.77

  The author of The Lives of a Cell and The Medusa and the Snail now raises challenging questions about some of the major issues of our time--AIDS, drug abuse, and aging. With extraordinary perception, he discusses topics such as evolutionary biology, the development of language, the therapeutic aspects of medicine, and his love for his profession.

• Used

  Paperback
  1993

  $12.04

  In The Fragile Species , Dr. Thomas raises challenging questions about some of the major issues of our time - AIDS, drug abuse and ageing. He voices his vital concern for the planet Earth, hanging there in space and obviously alive , and he offers a way to avoid, in a solution rooted in biology, the possible destruction of so lovely a creature . With perception, Dr Thomas discusses such varied topics as evolutionary biology, the development of language, the therapeutic aspects of medicine and his love for his profession.