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The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
James D. Watson
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June 12, 2001
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"Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders," writes James Watson in ...
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The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
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Oxford University Press, USA
October 25, 1990
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Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of ...
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Genes, Girls, and Gamow: After the Double Helix
James D. Watson
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Vintage
January 7, 2003
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
Richard Dawkins
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W.W. Norton & Co.
September 17, 1996
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Richard Dawkins is not a shy man. Edward Larson's research shows that most scientists today are not formally religious, but Dawkins is an in-your-face atheist in the witty British style: I want to persuade the reader, not just that the Darwinian world-view happens to be ...
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As the Future Catches You: How Genomics & Other Forces Are Changing Your Life, Work, Health & Wealth
Juan Enriquez
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Crown Business
October 16, 2001
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In As the Future Catches You, Juan Enriquez of the Harvard Business School attempts to capture the trajectory of technological progress and understand the forces shaping our social and economic futures. Enriquez argues that February 2, 2001--the date that anyone with Internet access could contemplate the entire human genome--is ...
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Invisible Frontiers: The Race to Synthesize a Human Gene
Stephen Hall
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Oxford University Press, USA
April 11, 2002
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Drawing on scores of interviews with participants, science writer Hall describes the 19761978 "race"begun when the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly organized a recombinant DNA symposium of scientists in Indianapolisbetween a Harvard biogenetics lab, headed b...
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The Private Life of the Brain: Emotions, Consciousness, and the Secret of the Self
Susan A. Greenfield
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Wiley
May 11, 2001
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What's going on in there? One of the great scientific and philosophical mysteries is how a few pounds of wet, salty cobwebs can give rise to the rich experience that we call consciousness. Oxford neuroscientist Susan Greenfield peers inside the dimly li...
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The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
Spencer Wells
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Princeton University Press
December 23, 2002
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Spencer Wells traces human evolution back to our very first ancestor in ...
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Guiding Icarus: Merging Bioethics with Corporate Interests
Rahul K. Dhanda
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Wiley-Liss
April 11, 2002
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"&an interesting and useful resource for any industry insider&" -- Chemistry & Industry"...a must read for those interested in understanding how bioethics can help industry develop ethically and socially responsible biotechnologies." -- Canadian Medical Association Journal, August 20, 2002"...if you read The Economist you'll doubtless find this of ...
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Living with Our Genes: Why They Matter More Than You Think
Dean H. Hamer
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Anchor
February 16, 1999
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How many of our faults are in our genetic stars, and how many in ourselves? Human geneticist Dean Hamer, whose research team found the popularly termed ...
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Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future
Gregory Stock
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
June 15, 2002
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Will the genetic research that gave us the Flavr Savr tomato also give us the power to customize our children? Medical thinker Gregory Stock believes that this is precisely what's happening and that we'd better get used to it fast. ...
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Steven Johnson
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Scribner
August 28, 2001
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An individual ant, like an individual neuron, is just about as dumb as can be. Connect enough of them together properly, though, and you get spontaneous intelligence. Web pundit Steven Johnson explains what we know about this phenomenon with a rare lucidit...
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The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
Ray Kurzweil
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Penguin (Non-Classics)
January 1, 2000
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How much do we humans enjoy our current status as the most intelligent beings on earth? Enough to try to stop our own inventions from surpassing us in smarts? If so, we'd better pull the plug right now, because if Ray Kurzweil is right we've only got un...
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared M. Diamond
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W.W. Norton & Co.
April 1, 1999
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Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every ...
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Genome
Matt Ridley
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Harper Perennial
October 3, 2000
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Science writer Matt Ridley has found a way to tell someone else's story without being accused of plagiarism. ...
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
Matt Ridley
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Penguin (Non-Classics)
June 1, 1995
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Why do we have sex? One of the main biological reasons, contends Ridley, is to combat disease. By constantly combining and recombining genes every generation, people "keep their genes one step ahead of their parasites," thereby strengthening resistance to ...
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Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
Robert Wright
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Pantheon
January 4, 2000
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Nonzero, from New Republic writer Robert Wright, is a difficult and important book--well worth reading--addressing the controversial question of purpose in evolution. Using language suggesting that natural selection is a designer's tool, Wright inevitably draws the conclusion that evolution is goal-oriented (or at least ...
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Decoding Darkness: The Search for the Genetic Causes of Alzheimer's Disease
Rudolph E. Tanzi
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Basic Books
December 24, 2001
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Alzheimer's disease, a fatal, annihilating brain disorder, affects millions of men and women around the world. In the United States alone, perhaps one in five persons aged 75 or older suffers from it, though hundreds of thousands of younger people also ...
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Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through Our Genes
Steve Olson
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
May 15, 2002
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Thanks to recent discoveries in genetics, explains science journalist Olson, we're learning about human history before any history was written down.Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc....
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The Gene Masters: How a New Breed of Scientific Entrepeneurs Raced for the Biggest Prize in Biology
Ingrid Wickelgren
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Times Books
October 9, 2002
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The highly publicized events leading up to the 2001 publication of the Human Genome draft sequences in Nature (the public sequence) and Science (Celera's private, i.e., patented, sequence) form the outline of these absorbing, accessible, and complement...
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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Edward O. Wilson
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Vintage
March 30, 1999
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The biologist Edward O. Wilson is a rare scientist: having over a long career made signal contributions to population genetics, evolutionary biology, entomology, and ethology, he has also steeped himself in philosophy, the humanities, and the social sci...
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The Diversity of Life
Edward O. Wilson
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W.W. Norton & Co.
May 1, 1999
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Humans, the Harvard University entomologist Edward O. Wilson has observed, have an innate--or at least extremely ancient--connection to the natural world, and our continued divorce from it has led to the loss of not only "a vast intellectual legacy bor...
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The Unfit: A History of a Bad Idea
Elof Axel Carlson
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
June 15, 2001
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I am going to say it clearly and succinctly: this brand-new book is one of the most important scholarly works of the year. Seeking to understand why some people were poor, homeless, criminally inclined, mentally ill, and in other ways socially inadequate, ...
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From Alchemy to IPO: The Business of Biotechnology
Cynthia Robbins-roth
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Basic Books
April 10, 2001
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Despite unnerving swings in individual stock valuations--or perhaps because of them--many knowledgeable observers still believe the 21st century will ultimately earn its stripes as the Age of Biotech. Cynthia Robbins-Roth, named by ...
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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
Brenda Maddox
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HarperCollins
October 1, 2002
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Her photographs of DNA were called "among the most beautiful X-ray photographs of any substance ever taken," but physical chemist Rosalind Franklin never received due credit for the crucial role these played in the discovery of DNA's structure. In this sym...
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What Evolution Is
Ernst Mayr
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October 16, 2001
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Gathering insights from his seven-decade career, the renowned biologist Ernst Mayr argues that evolution is now to be considered not a theory but a fact--and that "there is not a single Why? question in biology that can be answered adequately without a con...
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Remaking Eden
Lee M. Silver
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Harper Perennial
October 1, 1998
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In this brilliant, provocative, and necessary book, Lee M. Silver takes a cautiously optimistic look at the scientific advances that will allow us to engineer life in ways that were unimaginable just a few short years ago--indeed, in ways that go far beyon...
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