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Title:

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

Publisher:

Chelsea Green Pub.,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xx, 358 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Scientists--Interviews.
Science.

Other Authors:

Margulis, Lynn, 1938-
Punset, Eduard, 1936-

Notes:

"A Sciencewriters book." Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-345) and index.

Contents:

13. Kenneth Kendler -- Fretful worry / 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 --
30. Different from amoebae / Cyclicity and sociality -- 14. Drumbeats / John Bonner -- 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 --
36. Index. From the vast to the miniscule -- 31. Walk through a cloud of electrons / Paul Davies -- 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.

ISBN:

1933392436 (pbk.)
9781933392431 (pbk.)
1933392614 (hbk.)
9781933392615 (hbk.)

LCCN:

2007018552

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)