The Oxford Book of Modern Science WritingSelected and introduced by Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a celebration of the finest writing by scientists for a wider audience - revealing that many of the best scientists have displayed as much imagination and skill with the pen as they have in the laboratory. This is a rich and vibrant collection that captures the poetry and excitement of communicating scientific understanding and scientific effort from 1900 to the present day. Professor Dawkins has included writing from a diverse range of scientists, some of whom need no introduction, and some of whose works have become modern classics, while others may be less familiar - but all convey the passion of great scientists writing about their science. |
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... ADAPTATION AND NATURAL SELECTION 30 Francis Crick from LIFE ITSELF 35 Matt Ridley from GENOME 40 Sydney Brenner 'THEORETICAL BIOLOGY IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM' 48 Steve Jones from THE LANGUAGE OF THE GENES 53 J. B. S. Haldane from 'ON ...
... ADAPTATION AND NATURAL SELECTION 30 Francis Crick from LIFE ITSELF 35 Matt Ridley from GENOME 40 Sydney Brenner 'THEORETICAL BIOLOGY IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM' 48 Steve Jones from THE LANGUAGE OF THE GENES 53 J. B. S. Haldane from 'ON ...
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The Language of Genes, Flamingo, 2000. Kingdon, Jonathan (1935– ) Biologist, artist, and writer. Before the Wise Men, Simon and Schuster, 1993. Lack, David (1910–1973) Ornithologist. The Life of the Robin, Collins, 1965.
The Language of Genes, Flamingo, 2000. Kingdon, Jonathan (1935– ) Biologist, artist, and writer. Before the Wise Men, Simon and Schuster, 1993. Lack, David (1910–1973) Ornithologist. The Life of the Robin, Collins, 1965.
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We are used to the idea that we are moulded by the microworld: we are vulnerable to viruses a millionth of a metre in length, and the minute DNA double-helix molecule encodes our total genetic heritage. And it's just as obvious that we ...
We are used to the idea that we are moulded by the microworld: we are vulnerable to viruses a millionth of a metre in length, and the minute DNA double-helix molecule encodes our total genetic heritage. And it's just as obvious that we ...
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Fisher was one of the three great founders of population, mathematical, and evolutionary genetics, one of the half dozen or so founders of the neo-Darwinian Modern Synthesis, and arguably the founder of modern statistics.
Fisher was one of the three great founders of population, mathematical, and evolutionary genetics, one of the half dozen or so founders of the neo-Darwinian Modern Synthesis, and arguably the founder of modern statistics.
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Had he assumed that this hereditary nature was completely determined by the aggregate of the hereditary particles (genes), which enter into its composition, and at the same time assumed that organisms of certain possible types of ...
Had he assumed that this hereditary nature was completely determined by the aggregate of the hereditary particles (genes), which enter into its composition, and at the same time assumed that organisms of certain possible types of ...
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Conteúdo
PART II WHO SCIENTISTS ARE | 149 |
PART III WHAT SCIENTISTS THINK | 245 |
PART IV WHAT SCIENTISTS DELIGHT IN | 347 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 397 |
INDEX | 401 |
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| Título | The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing Oxford Landmark Science |
| Editor | Richard Dawkins |
| Editora | Oxford University Press, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0191550841, 9780191550843 |
| Num. págs. | 439 páginas |
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