Being Human

by David W. Deamer

From the The initial questions to be settled for an embryonic textbook are those concerning content and style. My first thought in writing this book was to make it readable for non-science majors, and short enough to be covered in a one-quarter or one-semester course, while somehow avoiding superficiality.

508 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

David Wilson Deamer (born April 21, 1939) is an American biologist and Research Professor of Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Deamer has made contributions to the field of membrane biophysics. His work led to a novel method of DNA sequencing and a more complete understanding of the role of membranes in the origin of life.

He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985, which supported research at the Australian National University in Canberra to investigate organic compounds in the Murchison meteorite. He served as the president of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life from 2013 to 2014.