Editions

Lifelines

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099468639

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 245g

  • RRP: £12.99

Lifelines

  • Life Beyond the Gene

In Lifelines, neuroscientist Steven Rose offers a theory of life that insists that we as humans - along with all living creatures - create our own futures, though in circumstances not of our own choosing. Placing the organism at the centre of life, Rose directly confronts the ideology of reductionism and ultra-Darwinism, with its headline-grabbing insistence that all aspects of human life from sexual preference to infanticide, political orientation to violence, make domination to alcoholism, are in our genes and are the inevitable consequence of natural selection. Rose asserts that such claims are not merely socially naive, but fundamentally misunderstand the active and irreducible nature of living processes.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099468639

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 245g

  • RRP: £12.99

Reviews

  • In the current intellectual and political climate, there is a desperate need to return to the real biology of real organisms, including human beings, in a real world. For the general reader wanting to know how this might be done, there can be no better guide than Rose's book

    New Scientist

  • Written with admirable clarity and force... I can't imagine anyone who wanted enlightenment coming away from this book empty-handed

    Spectator

  • Essential reading for anyone interested in biology and evolution

    Times Higher Education Supplement

  • There is no denying his skill as a writer...a flowing, elegant scientific treatise

    Observer

More from this Author

About the Author

Steven Rose

Steven Rose is Professor of Biology and Director of the Brain and Behaviour Research Group at the Open University. THE CHEMISTRY OF LIFE (1966) was his first book. Since then he has written many others, including, in Penguin, NOT IN OUR GENES (1984) and LIFELINES (1997). He won the 1993 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize for THE MAKING OF MEMORY.

Steven Rose

Our Use of Cookies

We use cookies on this site to enable certain parts of the site to function and to collect information about your use of the site so that we can improve our visitors’ experience.

For more on our cookies and changing your settings click here

Strictly Necessary

Strictly Necessary cookies enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions. See More.

Analytics

Analytics cookies help us to improve our website by collecting and reporting information on how you use it. These cookies may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages. See More.

Preferences & Features

Preference and Feature cookies allow our website to remember choices you make, such as your language preferences and any customisations you make to pages on our website during your visit. See More.

Targeting / Advertising

Targeting cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you and your interests. They perform functions like preventing the same content from reappearing, ensuring ads are displayed and, in some cases, selecting content based on your interests. See More.