Life : the leading edge of evolutionary biology, genetics, anthropology, and environmental science /
"The newest addition to John Brockman's Edge.org series explores life itself, bringing together the world's leading biologists, geneticists, and evolutionary theorists -- including Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, J. Craig Venter, and Freeman Dyson. Scientists' understanding of...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper Perennial,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction by John Brockman
- Evolvability / Richard Dawkins
- Genomic imprinting / David Haig
- A full-force storm with gale winds blowing / Robert Trivers
- What evolution is / Ernst Mayr (with an introduction by Jared Diamond)
- Genetics plus time / Steve Jones (in conversation with Edge)
- A united biology / E. O. Wilson (with an introduction by Steven Pinker)
- Is life analog or digital? / Freeman Dyson
- Life: what a concept! / Freeman Dyson, J. Craig Venter, George Church, Dimitar Sasselov, Seth Lloyd, Robert Shapiro (in conversation with Edge)
- The gene-centric view: a conversation / Richard Dawkins, J. Craig Venter (with an introduction by John Brockman)
- The nature of normal human variety / Armand Marie Leroi
- Brains plus brawn / Daniel Lieberman
- Mapping the Neanderthal genome / Svante Pääbo
- On biocomputation / J. Craig Venter, Ray Kurzweil, Rodney Brooks
- Engineering biology / Drew Endy
- Eat me before I eat you: a new foe for bad bugs / Kary Mullis
- Duck sex and aesthetic evolution / Richard Prum
- Toxo / Robert Sapolsky
- The adjacent possible / Stuart Kauffman.