Here is an intellectual primer to take readers into the new sciences of the 21st century. Nearly 40 of the world's leading scientists have each contributed an original piece — an elementary idea, a basic concept, a tool for thought — relevant to their field of science. This is a sophisticated and stimulating book for intelligent readers who want to extend their reading in scientific areas.

THINKING ABOUT SCIENCE - ORIGINS - EVOLUTION - MIND - COSMOS - THE FUTURE

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These 34 short, succinct, deceptively simple essays by eminent scientists provide a wonderful entry into scientific thought and discovery. Some of the selections impart basic understanding of the world around us?for example, why water is crucial to the emergence and persistence of life; to what extent DNA determines an individual's traits; and symmetries in cell structures, crystals and physical forces. Other pieces deal with more fundamental questions. Physicist Paul Davies investigates whether time suddenly "switched on" with the Big Bang. Anthropologist Milford Wolpoff explores evolutionary links between humans and apes. Contributors include biologists Lynn Margulis, Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Dawkins, anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson, cosmologist Alan Guth. Turning to the future, demographer Joel Cohen predicts a drastic, inevitable decline in global population growth, while paleontologist Niles Eldredge ponders the possibility that war, famine, disease or ecological devastation will make humans extinct. Brockman (The Third Culture) and Matson (Short Lives) are literary agents.
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