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This idea is brilliant : lost, overlooked, and underappreciated scientific concepts everyone should know /

Presents essays responding to a question about what scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known, written by such authors as Jared Diamond, Richard Thaler, Richard Dawkins, Lisa Randall, Steven Pinker, and Carlo Rovelli.

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Group Author: Brockman, John, 1941; Milner, Yuri.; Waytz, Adam.; Rowan, David.; Dawkins, Richard, 1941-; Fitch, W. Tecumseh.; Lloyd, Seth, 1960-; Pinker, Steven, 1954-; Lisi, Antony Garrett.; Losos, Jonathan B.; Church, George M. George McDonald.
Published: Harper Perennial,
Publisher Address: New York, NY :
Publication Dates: [2018]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Science > Miscellanea
Summary: Presents essays responding to a question about what scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known, written by such authors as Jared Diamond, Richard Thaler, Richard Dawkins, Lisa Randall, Steven Pinker, and Carlo Rovelli.
Item Description: Includes index.
Carrier Form: xxvi, 515 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN: 9780062698216
0062698214
Index Number: Q173
CLC: N539
Call Number: N539/T448
Contents: Longevity factor /
Illusion of explanatory depth /
Synaptic transfer /
Genetic book of the dead /
Exaptation /
Virial theorem /
Second law of thermodynamics /
Emergence /
Natural selection /
DNA /

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