(Paperback)

The debut of a female Steve Jones likeable, literate, lucid and laconic. A sprightly, lavishly illustrated book on the science of human survival.

(Paperback)

From before birth to the last breath we draw, from consciousness to sexual attraction, fighting infection to the beating of our hearts, electricity is essential to everything we think and do. This title reveals the secrets of ion channels, which produce the electrical signals in our cells.