Life : the leading edge of evolutionary biology, genetics, anthropology, and environmental science /: the leading edge of evolutionary biology, genetics, anthropology, and environmental science. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by John Brockman.
• Other Names: Brockman, John 1941- book editor.; Brockman, John 1941- author of introduction.
• Contents: Introduction by John Brockman -- Evolvability / Richard Dawkins -- Genomic imprinting / David Haig -- A full-force storm with gale winds blowing / Robert Trivers -- What evolution is / Ernst Mayr (with an introduction by Jared Diamond) -- Genetics plus time / Steve Jones (in conversation with Edge) -- A united biology / E. O. Wilson (with an introduction by Steven Pinker) -- Is life analog or digital? / Freeman Dyson -- Life: what a concept! / Freeman Dyson, J. Craig Venter, George Church, Dimitar Sasselov, Seth Lloyd, Robert Shapiro (in conversation with Edge) -- The gene-centric view: a conversation / Richard Dawkins, J. Craig Venter (with an introduction by John Brockman) -- The nature of normal human variety / Armand Marie Leroi -- Brains plus brawn / Daniel Lieberman -- Mapping the Neanderthal genome / Svante Pääbo -- On biocomputation / J. Craig Venter, Ray Kurzweil, Rodney Brooks -- Engineering biology / Drew Endy -- Eat me before I eat you: a new foe for bad bugs / Kary Mullis -- Duck sex and aesthetic evolution / Richard Prum -- Toxo / Robert Sapolsky -- The adjacent possible / Stuart Kauffman.
• Publisher Details: New York : Harper Perennial
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 367 pages)
• Subjects: 570.1; Science -- Cognitive Science; Life (Biology); Life (Biology) -- Philosophy; Evolution; Human evolution; Human genome; Evolution; Human evolution; Human genome; Life (Biology); Life (Biology) -- Philosophy; Science -- General; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780062296061
• Related ISBNs: 006229606X; 9780062296054; 0062296051
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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