Steven Rose was the first professor of biology at the Open University, where he taught for several decades. His many books include The Chemistry of Life, The Conscious Brain, The Making of Memory and, with his wife, Hilary, Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments against Evolutionary Psychology, Genes, Cells and Brains: The Promethean Promises of the New Biology and Can Neuroscience Change Our Minds? They were among the founders of the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science, established, like the OU, in 1969. He died in July 2025 at the age of 87.
Steven Rose is a well-known public scientist who has dedicated his career to the study of brains. He has lived through the early days of the technical revolution that has involved increasingly...
Astronomers have penetrated billions of light-years into space, explained the changing states of stars from their birth to their death, postulated the existence of black holes in which matter...
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