Cotton with one palm: how inanimate nature gave rise to the human mind. Kukushkin N.

Life on Earth is incomprehensible, ubiquitous, teeming with millions of legs, knots, thorns and teeth of Bacchanalia, in which we exist and from which we come from. For three and a half billion years she did without us, and now, in the last moments of history, a person emerges from this intricacies of animals, plants, mushrooms and microbes and wonders: who am I and what is the meaning of my human life? It turns out that dinosaurs are to blame for human suffering, lungs exist thanks to lichens, and the main event in the life of our ancestors for the last Eon was a transformation into worms. “Cotton with one palm” is the story of a person and his inner world, which contains all the way from inorganic molecules to the emergence of the language and told as if it are a knightly novel or a mythical epic. In his debut book, the evolutionary neurobiologist Nikolai Kukushkin, step by step, recreates a picture of the world from inanimate matter to the human mind, in order to find in the past of his type the answers to eternal questions.

About the author: Nikolai Kukushkin neurobiologist, specialist in molecular mechanisms and memory evolution. A graduate of St. Petersburg State University, a doctor of philosophy of Oxford University, was trained at Harvard Medical School, now a professor of New York University. The author and co-author of numerous scientific and popular science publications, including both Russian-speaking articles in the media (“Knife”, RIA Novosti, etc.), as well as English-language work in prestigious reviewed magazines (Neuron, Nature Medicine, etc.). /p>