The Oxford Book of Modern Science WritingRichard Dawkins Oxford University Press, 13 de mar. de 2008 - 439 páginas Selected 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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... later Reader in Zoology at New College, Oxford, before becoming the first holder of the Simonyi Chair. He is an Emeritus Fellow of New College. The Selfish Gene (1976; second edition 1989) catapulted Richard Dawkins to fame, and remains ...
... later Reader in Zoology at New College, Oxford, before becoming the first holder of the Simonyi Chair. He is an Emeritus Fellow of New College. The Selfish Gene (1976; second edition 1989) catapulted Richard Dawkins to fame, and remains ...
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... later in the book, when I discuss the difficulties experienced by the evolved human mind as we try to understand the extreme realms of science far from the middle ground in which our ancestors survived. The first extract comes from ...
... later in the book, when I discuss the difficulties experienced by the evolved human mind as we try to understand the extreme realms of science far from the middle ground in which our ancestors survived. The first extract comes from ...
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... later times the energy of the block will be found (or lost) dispersed. Illusions of purpose are captured by the model. We may think that there are reasons why one change occurs and not another. We may think that there are reasons for ...
... later times the energy of the block will be found (or lost) dispersed. Illusions of purpose are captured by the model. We may think that there are reasons why one change occurs and not another. We may think that there are reasons for ...
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... later parts of the book, but you can tell that the biologist in whose presence we find ourselves was a mathematician first. Fisher was one of the three great founders of population, mathematical, and evolutionary genetics, one of the ...
... later parts of the book, but you can tell that the biologist in whose presence we find ourselves was a mathematician first. Fisher was one of the three great founders of population, mathematical, and evolutionary genetics, one of the ...
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... later books, Mankind Evolving (1962), which influenced me when I was an undergraduate and heard him give a lecture at Oxford as the guest of E. B. Ford. Dobzhansky's chapter is a lucid exposition 22 . WHAT SCIENTISTS STUDY Theodosius ...
... later books, Mankind Evolving (1962), which influenced me when I was an undergraduate and heard him give a lecture at Oxford as the guest of E. B. Ford. Dobzhansky's chapter is a lucid exposition 22 . WHAT SCIENTISTS STUDY Theodosius ...
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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