Mind, life, and universe : conversations with great scientists of our time
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Mind, life, and universe : conversations with great scientists of our time
Chelsea Green Pub., 2007
- : pbk
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"A Sciencewriters book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-345) and index
Contents of Works
- Intelligent life on earth? / Nicholas Mackintosh
- Stressed chimps / Robert Sapolsky
- Nearly human / Jane Goodall
- A question of degree / Jordi Sabater Pi
- Like ants, bees, and termites, but different / Edward O. Wilson
- Can beauty be measured? / Victor Johnston
- Science of happiness / Daniel Gilbert
- Psychopaths / Robert Hare
- No one is boss / Daniel Dennett
- The hidden self / Oliver Sacks
- Locked in the dark / Rodolfo Llińás
- Dialogue with fear / Joseph Ledoux
- Fretful worry / Kenneth Kendler
- Drumbeats / Steven Strogatz
- Survival, not truth, is imperative / Richard Gregory
- Dreaming to learn / Nicholas Humphrey
- Music and talk / Diana Deutsch
- The secret code / Sydney Brenner
- Beyond the human genome / William Haseltine
- The second brain / Phillip Tobias and Ralph Holloway
- Immortality from your mother / Douglas Walker
- Inevitability of aging? / Tom Kirkwood
- Life, master of the earth / James E. Lovelock
- Life is a mistake / Kenneth H. Nealson
- Evolution and purpose / Stephen Jay Gould
- The code of the dead / Richard Dawkins
- Purpose of evolution / Dorion Sagan
- Life as growth / William Day
- Our ancestor, the bacterium / Ricardo Guerrero
- Different from amoebae / John Bonner
- Walk through a cloud of electrons / Eugene Chudnovsky
- Atomic consciousness / Heinrich Rohrer
- Too huge for the atom, too tiny for the star / Sheldon Lee Glashow
- New dimensions / Lisa Randall
- Manipulation by dwarves / Nicoĺás García
- Space destroyed and time obliterated / Paul Davies
