How to Grow a Human: Adventures in How We Are Made and Who We Are

by Philip Ball

Book Overview

Two summers ago, scientists removed a tiny piece of flesh from Philip Ball's arm and turned it into a rudimentary "mini-brain." The skin cells, removed from his body, did not die but were instead transformed into nerve cells that independently arranged themselves into a dense network and communicated with each other, exchanging the raw signals of thought. This was life--but whose?

In his most mind-bending book yet, Ball makes that disconcerting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022665480X
• ISBN13: 9780226654805
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"