Full name: The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher

Author: Lewis Thomas Year: 1974 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Essays Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads OpenLibrary Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780140243192 0140243194

The medusa is a tiny jellfish that lives on the ventral surface of a sea slug found in the Bay of Naples. Readers will find themselves caught up in the fate of the medusa and the snail as a metaphor for eternal issues of life and death as Lewis Thomas further extends the exploration of a man and his world begun in "The Lives of a Cell." Among the treasures in this magnificent book are essays on the human genius for making mistakes, on disease and natural death, on cloning, on warts, and on Montaigne, as well as an assessment of medical science and health care. In these essays and others, Thomas once again conveys his observations of the scientific world in prose marked by wonder and wit. This book is part of the "Notes of a Biology Watcher" series. Here are some other books from this series: "The Lives of a Cell" First published in 1974 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: Similar books: The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas The Fragile Species by Lewis Thomas The Flight of the Iguana by David Quammen The Richness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould The Beauty of the Beastly by Natalie Angier The Trouble With Testosterone by Robert M. Sapolsky Natural Acts by David Quammen The Flamingo's Smile by Stephen Jay Gould In Search of Nature by Edward O. Wilson One Renegade Cell by Robert Weinberg Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes by Stephen Jay Gould Eight Little Piggies by Stephen Jay Gould Wonders of Life by Brian Cox The Panda's Thumb by Stephen Jay Gould Ever Since Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould Death by Black Hole by Neil deGrasse Tyson The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by Richard Dawkins Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. Seward Six Easy Pieces by Richard P. Feynman