At the Edge of Uncertainty : 11 Discoveries taking Science by Surprise Michael Brooks.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-281) and index.

Triumph of the zombie killers: the science of consciousness has risen from the grave -- The crowded pinnacle: human beings are nothing special -- The chimera era: we are ready to make a whole new kind of creature -- The gene genie: there's more to life than DNA -- Different for girls: men and women ail in very different ways -- Will to live: your mind has power in your body -- Correlations in creation: biology is putting quantum weirdness to work -- The reality machine: our universe is a computer, and we are the programmers -- Complicating the cosmos: our story of creation is far from complete -- Hypercomputing: Alan Turing had another good idea -- Clocking off: time is an illusion.

Examines controversial new developments in biology, cosmology, and other scientific fields that may radically change current understandings of these subjects.