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The best American science and nature writing, 2004

Author: Richard Dawkins; Tim Folger
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., ©2004.
Series: The Best American series
Edition/Format: Book : Essay : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Dawkins; Tim Folger
ISBN: 0618246975 9780618246977 0618246983 9780618246984
OCLC Number: 56676823
Description: xxi, 209 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Foreword -- Introduction / Steven Pinker -- Genesis of suicide terrorism / Scott Atran -- The battle for your brain / Ronald Bailey -- Fearing the worst should anyone produce a cloned baby / Philip M. Boffey -- The bittersweet science / Austin Bunn -- The new celebrity / Jennet Conant -- The mythical threat of genetic determinism / Daniel C. Dennett -- We're all gonna die! / Gregg Easterbrook -- Far-out television / Garrett G. Fagan -- A war on obesity, not the obese / Jeffrey M. Friedman -- Desperate measures / Atul Gawande -- The stuff of genes / Horace Freeland Judson -- The bloody crossroads of grammar and politics / Geoffrey Nunberg -- Ask the bird folks / Mike O'Connor -- Where have all the lisas gone? / Peggy Orenstein -- The design of your life / Virginia Postrel -- Caring for your introvert / Jonathan Rauch -- All the old sciences have starring roles / Chet Raymo -- Sex week at Yale / Ron Rosenbaum -- The cousin marriage conundrum / Steve Sailer -- Bugs in the brain / Robert Sapolsky -- Through the eye of an octopus / Eric Scigliano -- Captivated / Meredith F. Small -- Parallel universes / Max Tegmark -- In click languages, an echo of the tongues of the ancients / Nicholas Wade -- A prolific Genghis Khan, it seems, helped people the world / Nicholas Wade.
Series Title: The Best American series
Responsibility: edited and with an introduction by Steven Pinker ; Tim Folger, series editor.

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