S/t: Mind in the Universe The evolution of life & the development of the human mind. The title is from the 1937–38 Gifford Lectures by Charles Sherrington: "It is as if the Milky Way entered upon some cosmic dance. Swiftly the head mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one; a shifting harmony of subpatterns." Jastrow "shows us the latest breakthroughs in astronomy, biology, & the brain sciences, & explains how these scientific discoveries have given us a new view of man..."