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An edition of The Best American Science Writing 2001 (2001)

The Best American Science Writing 2001

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Ecco Press
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Pages
333

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Table of Contents

Timothy Ferris. Introduction
Page vii
John Updike. Transparent Stratagems
Page 1
Michael S. Turner. More Than Meets the Eye
Page 3
Natalie Angier. In Mandrill Society, Life Is a Girl Thing
Page 13
Joel Achenbach. Life Beyond Earth
Page 19
Erik Asphaug. The Small Planets
Page 32
John Archibald Wheeler. How Come the Quantum?
Page 41
Stephen S. Hall. The Recycled Generation
Page 44
Richard Preston. The Genome Warrior
Page 61
Peter J. Boyer. DNA on Trial
Page 90
John Terborgh. In the Company of Humans
Page 112
James Schwartz. Death of an Altruist
Page 120
Ernst Mayr. Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought
Page 134
Greg Critser. Let Them Eat Fat
Page 143
Andrew Sullivan. The He Hormone
Page 154
Malcolm Gladwell. John Rock's Error
Page 171
Helen Epstein. The Mystery of AIDS in South Africa
Page 187
Debbie Bookchin and Jim Schumacher. The Virus and the Vaccine
Page 212
Stephen Jay Gould. Syphilis and the Shepherd of Atlantis
Page 232
Tracy Kidder. The Good Doctor
Page 247
Jacques Leslie. Running Dry
Page 275
Robert L. Park. Welcome to Planet Earth
Page 302
Alan Lightman. A Portrait of the Novelist as a Young Scientist
Page 310
Freeman J. Dyson. Science, Guided by Ethics, Can Lift Up the Poor
Page 313
About the Contributors
Page 317

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Series
Best American Science Writing

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Dewey Decimal Class
500

Contributors

Editor
Timothy Ferris
Editor
Jesse Cohen

The Physical Object

Pagination
333 p. ;
Number of pages
333

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OL23042109M
ISBN 10
0060936487
OCLC/WorldCat
48386817
Goodreads
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99982

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