A world-renowned expert in the emerging science of epigenetics reveals how changing our understanding of biology will help us navigate this turbulent period in our planet's history, and how each of us can participate in this global shift.

Various printings. .

Part I: What if everything you know is wrong? -- Believing is seeing -- Act locally... evolve globally -- A new look at the old story -- Rediscovering America. Part II: Four myth-perceptions of the apocalypse -- Myth-perception one : only matter matters -- Myth-perception two : survival of the fittest -- Myth-perception three : it's in your genes -- Myth-perception four : evolution is random -- Dysfunction at the junction -- Going sane. Part III: Changing the guard and re-growing the garden -- Fractal evolution -- Time to see a good shrink -- The one suggestion -- A healthy commonwealth -- Healing the body politic -- A whole new story.