Publisher's Synopsis
Very few of us know about the machinery and workings of the human body. In an era when most educated people are up-to-date on such questions as gene research or the male contraceptive pill, we are not at all familiar with the structure and function of our own organs.;This work explains the basic equipment of the body and shows how the human organism constructs its own strategies for survival. In writing this, Nuland became preoccupied with a question: what is the human spirit, and how does the structure and functioning of the physical body explain it? He argues that the human spirit is as inseparable from the body as the mind is from the brain, and results from the adaptive biological mechanisms that protect our species and perpetuate our existence.
