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| Genre/Form: | Interviews |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Mind, life, and universe. White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., c2007 (OCoLC)623270972 |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lynn Margulis; Eduard Punset |
| ISBN: | 9781933392615 1933392614 9781933392431 1933392436 |
| OCLC Number: | 124036294 |
| Notes: | "A Sciencewriters book." |
| Description: | xx, 358 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | 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 Lliná́s -- 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 / Nicolá́s García -- Space destroyed and time obliterated / Paul Davies. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Lynn Margulis and Eduardo Punset. |
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What a delight it is to eavesdrop on conversations with so many agile, inventive, piquantly original minds. That the interviewers are far-sighted and wide-ranging themselves enriches the dialogues. A profound and timely book. n Diane Ackerman Read more...
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