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Article: A grandpa and his brainchild Everything now known about the human mind is here, finds Emma Crichton-Miller
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
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- February 27, 2005
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STEVEN ROSE is one of Britain's foremost neuroscientists, a
Professor of Biology and Director of the Brain and Behaviour Research
Group at the Open University among a host of other distinctions. A
biochemist by training, his special focus is the molecular mechanisms
of memory, and over the course of 40 years he has written many books
for both scientists and the general public on the chemistry of life,
on consciousness and on memory.
But Rose is also a grandfather. As he wrote this book he turned 65
and his virtuoso accounts here of the emergence of organic life on
earth and the evolution of mind in an infant are cut across by his