The Human Mind

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Where does our personality come from? Can we explain love at first sight? What do me mean by 'intelligence' or 'genius'? Can science explain intuition or deja-vu? Do we all have the potential to be a Tolstoy, Einstein or Mozart?Focusing on our day-to-day experiences, The Human Mind, which ties in to a major new BBC1 television series, sets out to answer these questions and more. Using the latest clinical research and drawing on sources as diverse as Hamlet and Sigmund Freud, the FBI and bingo, Robert Winston, in his trademark popular and accessible style, takes us inside our own heads to see what really makes us tick.

Robert Winston is one of the country's best-known scientists. As Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College, University of London, and Director of NHS Research and Development and Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Hammersmith Hospital, he has made advances in fertility medicine and been a leading voice in the debate on genetic engineering. His television series, including Your Life in Their Hands, Making Babies, The Human Body, Superhuman and Child Against All Odds and have made him a household name across Britain. He became a life peer in 1995.

Wide-ranging and thoroughly entertaining * New Scientist * Devastaingly good...Every chapter bursts with clear logic, style, wit and imagination. * Brian May, Guitarist for Queen *