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Featured Writers and Extracts xi
Introduction xvii
Part I What Scientists Study
The Mysterious Universe James Jeans 3
Just Six Numbers Martin Rees 4
Creation Revisited Peter Atkins ll
The Ant and The Peacock Helena Cronin 16
The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection R. A. Fisher 18
Mankind Evolving Theodosius Dobzhansky 22
Adaptation and Natural Selection G. C.Williams 27
Life Itself Francis Crick 30
Genome Matt Ridley 35
\'Theoretical Biology in The Third Millennium\' Sydney Brenner 40
The Language of The Genes Steve Jones 48
\'On Being The Right Size\' J B. S. Haldane 53
The Explanation of Organic Diversity Mark Ridley 59
\'The Importance of The Nervous System In The Evolution Of Animal Flight\' John Maynard Smith 61
Man In The Universe Fred Hoyle 66
On Growth and Form D\'Arcy Thompson 69
The Meaning of Evolution G. G. Simpson 78
Trilobite! Richard Fortey 82
The Mind Machine Colin Blakemore 86
Mirrors In Mind Richard Gregory 89
\'One Self: A Meditation on The Unity of Consciousness\' Nicholas Humphrey 96
The Language Instinct and How The Mind Works Steven Pinker 103
The Rise and Fall of The Third Chimpanzee Jared Diamond 110
The Life of The Robin David Lack 114
Curious Naturalists Niko Tinbergen 115
Social Evolution Robert Trivers 123
The Open Sea Alister Hardy 127
The Sea Around Us Rachel Carson 130
\'How Flowers Changed The World\' Loren Eiseley 138
The Diversity of Life Edward O. Wilson 143
Part II Who Scientists Are
The Expanding Universe Arthur Eddington 151
The Foreword to C. H. Hardy\'s A Mathematician\'s Apology C. P. Snow 152
Disturbing The Universe Freeman Dyson 157
\'War and The Nations\' J. Robert Oppenheimer161
\'A Passion for Crystals\' Max F. Perutz 168
\'Said Ryle to Hoyle\' Barbara George Gamow 172
\'Cancer\'s A Funny Thing\' J. B. S. Haldane 174
The Identity of Man Jacob Bronowski 176
\'Science and Literature\', \'Darwin\'s Illness\', \'The Phenomenon Of Man\', the postscript to \'Lucky Jim\', and \'D\'Arcy Thompson and Growth and Form\' Peter Medawar 179
Self-Made Man Jonathan Kingdon 188
Origins Reconsidered Richard Leakey Roger Lewin 190
Lucy Donald C. Johanson Maitland A. Edey 195
\'Worm For A Century, and All Seasons\' Stephen Jay Gould 200
Life Cycles John Tyler Bonner 211
Uncle Tungsten Oliver Sacks 214
\'Seven Wonders\' Lewis Thomas 219
Avoid Boring People James Watson 226
What Mad Pursuit Francis Crick 229
The Unnatural Nature of Science Lewis Wolpert 232
Essays of a Biologist Julian Huxley 234
\'Religion and Science\' Albert Einstein 235
The Dem On-Haunted World Carl Sagan 239
Part III What Scientists Think
The Character of Physical Law Richard Feynman 247
What Is Life? Erwin Schrodinger 249
Darwin\'s Dangerous Idea and Consciousness Explained Daniel Dennett 254
The Growth of Biological Thought Ernst Mayr 259
\'The Tragedy of The Commons\' Garrett Hardin 263
Geometry For The Selfish Herd and Narrow Roads Of Geneland W. D. Hamilton 266
How Nature Works Per Bak 273
The Fantastic Combinations of John Conway\'s New Solitaire Game \'Life\' Martin Gardner 276
Mathematics For The Million Lancelot Hogben 284
The Miraculous Jar Ian Stewart 289
The Mathematical Theory of Communication Claude E. Shannon Warren Weaver 297
Computing Machinery and Intelligence Alan Turing 305
\'What Is The Theory of Relativity?\' Albert Einstein 314
Mr Tompkins George Gamow 317
The Goldilocks Enigma Paul Davies 323
The Time And Space of Uncle Albert Russell Stannard 332
The Elegant Universe Brian Greene 336
A Brief History Of Time Stephen Hawking 342
Part IV What Scientists Delight In
Truth and Beauty S. Chandrasekhar 349
A Mathematician\'s Apology G. H. Hardy 352
Dreams of A Final Theory Steven Weinberg 357
The Life of The Cosmos Lee Smolin 362
The Emperor\'s New Mind Roger Penrose 367
Godel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid Douglas Hofstadter 371
Geons, Black Holes, And Quantum Foam John Archibald Wheeler Kenneth Ford 378
The Fabric of Reality David Deutsch 381
The Periodic Table Primo Levi 383
Life: An Unauthorized Biography Richard Fortey 390
The Meaning of Evolution George Gaylord Simpson 392
Little Men and Flying Saucers Loren Eiseley 393
Pale Blue Dot Carl Sagan 394
Acknowledgements 397
Index 401