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From the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity--and its attendant breakthroughs and busts. The world is never finished catching up with …
Two distinguished linguists on language, the history of science, misplaced euphoria, surprising facts, and potentially permanent mysteries. In The Secrets of Words, influential …
Charting the exploration of an unknown world--our own--with a new cartography of living things rather than space available for conquest or colonization. This book charts the …
The life and work of Freeman Dyson--renowned scientist, visionary, and iconoclast--and his particular way of thinking about deep questions. Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)--renowned …
Essays on evolvability from the perspectives of quantitative and population genetics, evolutionary developmental biology, systems biology, macroevolution, and the philosophy of …
An argument that the development of scientific practice and growth of scientific knowledge are governed by Darwin's evolutionary model of descent with modification. Although …