Examines the author's genes, environment, brain, and body, exploring what they reveal about his and his family's future health, traits, and ancestry, as well as the profound impact of this new self-knowledge on what it means to be human.
Originally published in 1998 a history of man's failure to accurately date time. The story of the creation of the Western calendar and how it links politics, religion, astronomy, mathematics, Cleopatra and Stephen Hawking. Includes line drawings related to the struggle to align the heavens with the clock and what happened to the missing ten days.