by Parrington (Author)
What makes human consciousness unique? John Parrington draws on early Russian ideas and the latest neuroscience to argue that humans went through a 'mind shift' when we developed language, and words and the shared cultural world they enabled altered our brains, and have shaped them ever since.
Author Biography
John Parrington, Associate Professor in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Oxford
John Parrington is an Associate Professor in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology at the University of Oxford, and a Tutorial Fellow in Medicine at Worcester College, Oxford. He is the author of
The Deeper Genome (Oxford University Press, 2015) and
Redesigning Life (Oxford University Press, 2016), and has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles in science journals including
Nature, Current Biology, Journal of Cell Biology, Journal of Clinical Investigation, The EMBO Journal, Development, Developmental Biology, and
Human Reproduction. He has extensive experience writing popular science, having published articles in
The Guardian, New Scientist, Chemistry World, and
The Biologist. As a British Science Association Media Fellow he worked as a science journalist at
The Times; he has also written science reports for the Wellcome Trust, British Council, and Royal Society, and spoken about science to audiences at national events and festivals.
Number of Pages: 544
Dimensions: 1.9 x 9.3 x 6.1 IN
Publication Date: July 01, 2021
