The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
Selected and introduced by Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a rich and vibrant anthology celebrating the finest writing by scientists for a wider audience - revealing that the best scientists have displayed as much imagination and skill with the pen as they have in the laboratory
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9780191550843, 9781281341532, 9786611341534, 9781435642195, 0191550841, 1281341533, 6611341536, 1435642198
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Cover
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Featured Writers and Extracts
Introduction
PART I WHAT SCIENTISTS STUDY
James Jeans from THE MYSTERIOUS UNIVERSE
Martin Rees from JUST SIX NUMBERS
Large Numbers and Diverse Scales
The Value of N and Why it is So Large
Peter Atkins from CREATION REVISITED
Why Things Change
Helena Cronin from THE ANT AND THE PEACOCK
A World Without Darwin
R. A. Fisher from THE GENETICAL THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION
Difficulties Felt by Darwin
Particulate Inheritance Theodosius Dobzhansky from MANKIND EVOLVING
Equal but Dissimilar
Family Resemblances
Nature and Nurture in Condominium
G. C. Williams from ADAPTATION AND NATURAL SELECTION
Francis Crick from LIFE ITSELF
Nucleic Acids and Molecular Replication
Matt Ridley from GENOME
Chromosome 1: Life
Sydney Brenner 'THEORETICAL BIOLOGY IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM'
Steve Jones from THE LANGUAGE OF THE GENES
Change or Decay?
J. B. S. Haldane from 'ON BEING THE RIGHT SIZE'
Mark Ridley from THE EXPLANATION OF ORGANIC DIVERSITY
On Being the Right Sized Mates John Maynard Smith 'THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IN THE EVOLUTION OF ANIMAL FLIGHT'
The Stability of Primitive Flying Animals
The Evolution of Instability
Fred Hoyle from MAN IN THE UNIVERSE
D'Arcy Thompson from ON GROWTH AND FORM
The Equiangular Spiral
Spirals in Nature
The Spiral of Archimedes
The Equiangular Spiral
G. G. Simpson from THE MEANING OF EVOLUTION
Outlines of the History Of Mammals
Richard Fortey from TRILOBITE!
Colin Blakemore from THE MIND MACHINE
Sight Unseen
Knowledge from Molecules and Waves
Pictures in the Head Richard Gregory from MIRRORS IN MIND
Why are Looking-glass Images Right-Left Reversed?
Alice
Nicholas Humphrey 'ONE SELF: A MEDITATION ON THE UNITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS'
Steven Pinker from THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT
An Instinct to Acquire an Art
Steven Pinker from HOW THE MIND WORKS
The Smell of Fear
Jared Diamond from THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD CHIMPANZEE
David Lack from THE LIFE OF THE ROBIN
Niko Tinbergen from CURIOUS NATURALISTS
Robert Trivers from SOCIAL EVOLUTION
The Group Selection Fallacy
Species-Advantage Reasoning within Biology Alister Hardy from THE OPEN SEA
Rachel Carson from THE SEA AROUND US
The Changing Year
Loren Eiseley from 'HOW FLOWERS CHANGED THE WORLD'
Edward O. Wilson from THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE
Storm Over the Amazon
PART II WHO SCIENTISTS ARE
Arthur Eddington from THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE
C. P. Snow from the Foreword to G. H. Hardy's A MATHEMATICIAN'S APOLOGY
Freeman Dyson from DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE
A Scientifi c Apprenticeship
J. Robert Oppenheimer from 'WAR AND THE NATIONS'
Max F. Perutz 'A PASSION FOR CRYSTALS'
Barbara and George Gamow 'SAID RYLE TO HOYLE'
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J. B. S. Haldane 'CANCER'S A FUNNY THING'
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