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Mind, life, and universe : conversations with great scientists of our time / edited by Lynn Margulis and Eduardo Punset

Published
White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., [2007]
Copyright Date
©2007
Physical Description
xx, 358 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Additional Creators
Margulis, Lynn, 1938-2011 and Punset, Eduard, 1936-

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Contents
Foreword / David T. Suzuki -- Introduction and acknowledgments / Lynn Margulis -- pt. 1. People primates -- Culture before humans -- 1. Intelligent life on earth? / Nicholas Mackintosh -- 2. Stressed chimps / Robert Sapolsky -- 3. Nearly human / Jane Goodall -- 4. A question of degree / Jordi Sabater Pi -- 5. Like ants, bees, and termites, but different / Edward O. Wilson -- Attractiveness -- 6. Can beauty be measured? / Victor Johnston -- 7. Science of happiness / Daniel Gilbert -- 8. Psychopaths / Robert Hare -- Anxiety -- 9. No one is boss / Daniel Dennett -- 10. The hidden self / Oliver Sacks -- 11. Locked in the dark / Rodolfo Lliná́s -- 12. Dialogue with fear / Joseph Ledoux -- 13. Fretful worry / Kenneth Kendler --, pt. 2. Animal body-mind -- Cyclicity and sociality -- 14. Drumbeats / Steven Strogatz -- 15. Survival, not truth, is imperative / Richard Gregory -- 16. Dreaming to learn / Nicholas Humphrey -- 17. Music and talk / Diana Deutsch -- Prehistory and immortality of the body-mind -- 18. The secret code / Sydney Brenner -- 19. Beyond the human genome / William Haseltine -- 20. The second brain / Phillip Tobias and Ralph Holloway -- 21. Immortality from your mother / Douglas Wallace -- 22. Inevitability of aging? / Tom Kirkwood -- pt. 3. Life on an animate planet -- Bygone biospheres -- 23. Life, master of the earth / James E. Lovelock -- 24. Life is a mistake / Kenneth H. Nealson -- Toward perfection -- 25. Evolution and purpose / Stephen Jay Gould -- 26. The code of the dead / Richard Dawkins -- 27. Purpose of evolution / Dorion Sagan -- Dead or alive? -- 28. Life as growth / William Day -- 29. Our ancestor, the bacterium / Ricardo Guerrero -- 30. Different from amoebae / John Bonner --, and pt. 4. Toward the invisible -- From the vast to the miniscule -- 31. Walk through a cloud of electrons / Eugene Chudnovsky -- 32. Atomic consciousness / Heinrich Rohrer -- 33. Too huge for the atom, too tiny for the star / Sheldon Lee Glashow -- 34. New dimensions / Lisa Randall -- 35. Manipulation by dwarves / Nicolá́s García -- 36. Space destroyed and time obliterated / Paul Davies -- The scientists -- The editors -- The readings -- List of figures and tables -- Index.
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ISBN
9781933392615 (hbk.)
1933392614 (hbk.)
9781933392431 (pbk.)
1933392436 (pbk.)
Note
"A Sciencewriters book."
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [341]-345) and index.
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