How did the mind evolve? How does the human mind differ from the minds of our ancestors, and from the minds of our nearest relatives, the apes? If our minds are built by selfish genes, why are we so cooperative? These questions are at the centre of a research programme called evolutionary psychology.
The mass arrival of broadband has caused a revolution on the Internet. The major activity online is the downloading of music and video files. But where can all this be found? Is it safe to download? And what about the legal issues? These are questions which this book answers.
Genetics is the newest of all sciences - nothing useful was known about inheritance until just over a century ago. Now genetics is exploding, and before long we will have the complete code, written in three thousand million letters of DNA, of what makes a human being.