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“As different artists sculpt different statues from the same block of marble, different environments produce different characters, even in identical twins.” Evelyn, a geneticist and amateur archeologist, makes a formidable discovery in Israel, the consequence of which is the birth of Christopher and José, identical twins raised apart, one in affluent Sydney, the other in the slums of Buenos Aires. The twins, unaware of each other’s existence or their origin, will meet for a moment only, in the Amazon, adversaries in the battle for the forest. Standing by both twins is Lorena, a medical student who under the claws of a dictatorship organizes the student environmental resistance. A novel whose heroes travel to four continents in search of their identity. How can values such as love, faith, forgiveness and freedom change their lives? What are the limits of science and the brain? Can there be consilience between humans and nature?

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George PaxinosAO studied at Berkeley, McGill and Yale and is professor of medical sciences at NeuRA and UNSW. He discovered 94 parts of the brain (unequaled in history) and published 59 books on the brain and spinal cord. His first book, The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, is the most cited neuroscience publication. His Atlas of the Human Brain received awards from The Assoc of Am Publishers and the British Medical Assoc. As the tide that lifts all boats, his atlases facilitate research into the relationship between the brain and neurologic or psychiatric disease. He was president of the Australian Neuroscience Society and The World Congress of Neuroscience. A River Divided is his first novel.

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