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Mind, life, and universe : conversations with great scientists of our time / edited by Lynn Margulis and Eduardo Punset.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scientists--Interviews.
- Scientists.
- Science.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 358 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., [2007]
- Summary:
- Through Punset's skillful questions, readers meet one scientist who spends her waking hours to assure the freedom of African primates, another passionate about his idea that his wife's choice of husband was determined when she was a fetus, and another who explains the evidence for more than the standard four dimensions of length, width, height, and time. In captivating conversations with such science luminaries as Richard Dawkins, Sheldon Glashow, Jane Goodall, James E. Lovelock, Lisa Randall, Robert Sapolski, Oliver Sacks, and E.O. Wilson, the editors reveal a unique, hidden world of intellectual interest, verve, and humor.
- Contents:
- Part 1 People Primates
- Culture before Humans
- 1 Intelligent Life on Earth? / Nicholas Mackintosh 6
- 2 Stressed Chimps / Robert Sapolsky 12
- 3 Nearly Human / Jane Goodall 22
- 4 A Question of Degree / Jordi Sabater Pi 31
- 5 Like Ants, Bees, and Termites, but Different / Edward O. Wilson 35
- Attractiveness
- 6 Can Beauty Be Measured? / Victor Johnston 48
- 7 Science of Happiness / Daniel Gilbert 58
- 8 Psychopaths / Robert Hare 68
- Anxiety
- 9 No One Is Boss / Daniel Dennett 79
- 10 The Hidden Self / Oliver Sacks 87
- 11 Locked in the Dark / Rodolfo Llinas 97
- 12 Dialogue with Fear / Joseph Ledoux 104
- 13 Fretful Worry / Kenneth Kendler 109
- Part 2 Animal Body-Mind
- Cyclicity and Sociality
- 14 Drumbeats / Steven Strogatz 121
- 15 Survival, Not Truth, Is Imperative / Richard Gregory 130
- 16 Dreaming to Learn / Nicholas Humphrey 140
- 17 Music and Talk / Diana Deutsch 149
- Prehistory and Immortality of the Body-Mind
- 18 The Secret Code / Sydney Brenner 158
- 19 Beyond the Human Genome / William Haseltine 169
- 20 The Second Brain / Phillip Tobias, Ralph Holloway 172
- 21 Immortality from Your Mother / Douglas Wallace 182
- 22 Inevitability of Aging? / Tom Kirkwood 187
- Part 3 Life on an Animate Planet
- Bygone Biospheres
- 23 Life, Master of the Earth / James E. Lovelock 200
- 24 Life Is a Mistake / Kenneth H. Nealson 210
- Toward Perfection
- 25 Evolution and Purpose / Stephen Jay Gould 219
- 26 The Code of the Dead / Richard Dawkins 225
- 27 Purpose of Evolution / Dorion Sagan 231
- Dead or Alive?
- 28 Life as Growth / William Day 239
- 29 Our Ancestor, the Bacterium / Ricardo Guerrero 244
- 30 Different from Amoebae / John Bonner 254
- Part 4 Toward the Invisible
- From the Vast to the Miniscule
- 31 Walk through a Cloud of Electrons / Eugene Chudnovsky 269
- 32 Atomic Consciousness / Heinrich Rohrer 280
- 33 Too Huge for the Atom, Too Tiny for the Star / Sheldon Lee Glashow 285
- 34 New Dimensions / Lisa Randall 297
- 35 Manipulation by Dwarves / Nicolas Garcia 304
- 36 Space Destroyed and Time Obliterated / Paul Davies 309
- The Scientists 319.
- Notes:
- "A Sciencewriters book."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [341]-345) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781933392615
- 1933392614
- 9781933392431
- 1933392436
- OCLC:
- 124036294
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