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VIRTUALLY every human culture has sought to give life meaning through cosmological mythologies. Today, science tells a story of the universe that might actually be true and, according to Joel Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams, we must understand that story to understand ourselves. This is a deeply inspiring book that should be required reading for everyone. Weaving fascinating science with profound insight, the book puts us at the centre of the world – showing every cell in our bodies to contain the history of the universe and our very existence to be an astounding confluence of nature, from the quantum…

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