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• ISBN: 0375422919
• ISBN: 9780375422911
• Physical Description: xii, 236 pages ; 22 cm
• Edition: 1st edition
• Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2004]
• Copyright: ©2004

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Formatted Contents Note:

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Family affair / Nicholas Humphrey -- Bungling apprentice / David M. Buss -- Mountain gorilla and yeshiva boy / Robert M. Sapolsky -- Safety in numbers / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- My father and Albert Einstein / Murray Gell-Mann -- Midcentury modern education / Alison Gopnik -- Cosmology calls / Paul C.W. Davies -- Member of the club / Freeman J. Dyson -- Strange beautiful girl in a car / Lee Smolin -- How we may have become what we are / Steven Pinker -- Patterns and the participant observer / Mary Catherine Bateson -- Mixing it up /Lynn Margulis -- Childhood between realities / Jaron Lanier -- Dolittle and Darwin / Richard Dawkins -- One way of making a social scientist / Howard Gardner -- Brains through the back door / Joseph Ledoux -- Objects of our lives / Sherry Turkle -- Intellectual promiscuity / Marc D. Hauser -- Tom Swift Jr. and the power of ideas / Ray Kurzweil -- Day in the life of a child / Janna Levin -- Toward the worm / Rodney Brooks -- Everyday practice of physics in Silver City, New Mexico -- Math of the real world / Steven Strogatz -- At large in the mountains / Tim White -- Making of a scientist / V.S. Ramachandran -- What I want to be when I grow up / Daniel C. Dennett -- Gift of solitude / Judith Rich Harris.

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