Challenges of the Living World
Scientific progress and its consequences have the power to change our lives, the world we live in and our relationships with groups and other people. Life sciences are thus a major challenge for the century ahead. Control of the living world opens vast new horizons for healthcare, reproduction and nutrition, and life sciences play a growing role in the global economy. Yet questions and concerns abound, making new calls on individual and collective responsibilities. To understand, we need to know where we stand. For this, the Challenges of the Living World, a program including three major exhibitions, offers an overview of life sciences, with clear explanations of the issues that scientific and technical progress raise in our daily lives. Man Transformed raises the question of human identity in the face of technical developments that are making an increasingly wide range of tools available to transform or replicate the human body-or even recreate some forms of life.
Man and his Genes covers the themes of life, evolution and reproduction in a world where genetic engineering has given us new powers to alter living organisms and human beings themselves.
Inside the Brain is dedicated to the structure and functions of the human brain in every aspect of thinking and feeling, as revealed by the latest developments in neurosciences and cognitive sciences.