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Writing the future : progress and evolution
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Writing the future : progress and evolution

Author: David Rothenberg; Wandee J Pryor
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.
Series: Terra Nova book.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Anthologie (Descripteur de forme)
Literary collections
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David Rothenberg; Wandee J Pryor
ISBN: 0262182351 9780262182355
OCLC Number: 53360841
Notes: "A Terra nova book."
Description: xv, 273, [1] p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Where are we going, where have we been? / David Rothenberg and Wandee J. Pryor --
Wallace's dilemma : evolution and transcendence / Theodore Roszak --
Letter from Charles Darwin to his sister, Catherine / Simmons B. Buntin --
Is evolution a social construction? / Michael Ruse --
Science evolving : the case of the peppered moth / Craig Holdrege --
Why do birds and bees do it? / David C. Geary --
The first Mantophasmatodeae / Sharon Carter --
Prismatic progress / Dorion Sagan and Jessica H. Whiteside --
Of caves and humans / Ellen Dissanayake --
Lascaux. Pech Merle. Chauvet. / Andrew Schelling --
Tyger tyger / Andrew Schelling --
Rock is naturalist scripture / Andrew Schelling --
The man who spoke to stones / Stephen Miles Uzzo --
From The cane flute / Kristjana Gunnars --
New England ghazal / John Canaday --
The wings of the wind / Floyd Skloot --
Riders on the earth / Valerie Hurley --
Childhood in the church of Darwin / Leslie Van Gelder --
From Broken island / Eva Salzman --
January / David Petersen --
Dave Brubeck's garden / Ricardo Pau-Llosa --
Progress / Ricardo Pau-Llosa --
Notes from an urban dig / Carolynne Baker --
Quest for a future perfect / Kathleen Creed Page --
Intelligent robots or cyborgs / Kevin Warwick --
De-evolution and transhumanism / Joan Maloof --
Moral progress / Dale Jamieson --
Coevolutionary flashes in the withering beam of progress / Richard B. Norgaard --
The abundance of less : from A different kind of luxury / Andy Couturier --
From How little I know / R. Buckminster Fuller.
Series Title: Terra Nova book.
Responsibility: edited by David Rothenberg and Wandee J. Pryor.

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