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“... with the more guarded tone of Mapping Human History, whose author is a science journalist. Steve Olson initially makes grand claims about genetics and how it will help relieve suffering by conquering hunger, disease and mental illness, and promises to tell a story of conflict, adventure, triumph and sex. As a book aimed at the intelligent lay ...”

“... philosophers of personal identity who are called ‘animalists’ (notably Paul Snowdon and Eric Olson). But the concept of a person contains pressures that push us to say different things. We have for example to consider diseases that radically alter personality. People have divorced on the grounds that ‘this isn’t the person I married,’ and one ...”

“... immigrant (Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella) and US-born college dropout (Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg). Companies founded or run by such men are the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and seventh most valuable in the world. Their combined value is $20.94 trillion – one sixth of the entire world economy.Let’s begin in ...”

“... insistence on writing prose rather than poetry. Acker’s debt to Black Mountain – to Charles Olson, in particular, whose work she had known since she was still a schoolgirl – is quite clear and it is strange that this should have gone unrecognised, at least as she saw it, because she was not considered to be a poet. She adapted his concern with writing ...”