Cosmic Serpent : DNA and the Origins of

This adventure in science and imagination, which the Medical Tribune said might herald "a Copernican revolution for the life sciences," leads the reader through unexplored jungles and uncharted aspects of mind to the heart of knowledge.In a first-person narrative of scientific discovery that opens new perspectives on biology, anthropology, and the limits of rationalism, The Cosmic Serpent reveals how startlingly different the world around us appears when we open our minds to it.

Jeremy Narby, Ph.D., grew up in Canada and Switzerland, studied history at the University of Canterbury, and received his doctorate in anthropology from Stanford University.

Forest Television	p. 1
Anthropologists and Shamans	p. 10
The Mother of the Mother of Tobacco is a Snake	p. 19
Enigma in Rio	p. 36
Defocalizing	p. 44
Seeing Correspondences	p. 60
Myths and Molecules	p. 81
Through the Eyes of an Ant	p. 103
Receptors and Transmitters	p. 117
Biology's Blind Spot	p. 132
"What Took You so Long?	p. 146
Notes	p. 163
Bibliography	p. 223
Acknowledgments	p. 247
Permissions and Credits	p. 249
Index	p. 251
Bibliographic Index	p. 253
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Cosmic Serpent : DNA and the Origins of Knowledge

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