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" Carving our destiny : "
Susan M. Fitzpatrick and John T. Bruer, editors.
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1007936
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b762306
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Carving our destiny : : scientific research faces a new millenium /\ Susan M. Fitzpatrick and John T. Bruer, editors.
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Washington, D.C. :: J.H. Press,, ©2001.
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xx, 320 pages :: illustrations (some color), color maps ;; 24 cm
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0309068487
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: 9780309068482
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"Essays by the James S. McDonnell Centennial fellows"--Cover.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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The minds of humans and apes are different outcomes of an evolutionary experiment / Daniel J. Povinelli -- The cognitive neuroscience of numeracy: exploring the cerebral substrate, the development, and the pathologies of number sense / Stanislas Dehaene -- More than mere coloring: a dialog between philosophy and neuroscience on the nature of spectral vision / Kathleen A. Akins -- Why neuroscience needs pioneers / Patricia Smith Churchland -- Taking a snapshot of the early universe / John E. Carlstrom -- Looking for dark matter through a gravitational lens: a next-generation microlensing survey / Christopher W. Stubbs -- Advancing our knowledge of the universe / David Wilkinson -- Putting the genome on the map / Wendy Bickmore -- Human genetics in the twenty-first century / Leonid Kruglyak -- The body in parts: disease and the biomedical sciences in the twentieth century / Keith Wailoo -- Genetics meets genomics: trends and implications / David Schlessinger -- Scales that matter: untangling complexity in ecological systems / Mercedes Pascual -- Currents of change: the ocean's role in climate / Stefan Rahmstorf -- Simplicity and complexity / Murray Gell-Mann.
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Science.
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Science.
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Neurosciences.
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Progrès scientifique et technique.
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Science.
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Sciences.
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500
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Q171.C48 2001
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Bruer, John T.,1949-
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Fitzpatrick, Susan M.,1956-
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