Carving Our Destiny : Scientific Research Faces a New Millennium

by Fitzpatrick, Susan M.; Bruer, John T.

• ISBN13: 9780309068482
• ISBN10: 0309068487
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Natl Academy Pr

Summary

A collection of essays addressing fascinating questions on the frontiers of science. Written by the James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellows, and each discusses one of a wide range of scientific findings, adding to the general body of literature on the human role in the universe. DLC: Science.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Introduction	ix
Tribute to James S. McDonnell	xiii
The Minds of Humans and Apes Are Different Outcomes of an Evolutionary Experiment	1	(40)
Daniel J. Povinelli
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Numeracy: Exploring the Cerebral Substrate, the Development, and the Pathologies of Number Sense	41	(36)
Stanislas Dehaene
More Than Mere Coloring: A Dialog Between Philosophy and Neuroscience on the Nature of Spectral Vision	77	(40)
Kathleen A. Akins
Why Neuroscience Needs Pioneers	117	(6)
Patricia Smith Churchland
Taking a Snapshot of the Early Universe	123	(28)
John E. Carlstrom
Looking for Dark Matter Through a Gravitational Lens: A Next-Generation Microlensing Survey	151	(20)
Christopher W. Stubbs
Advancing Our Knowledge of the Universe	171	(8)
David Wilkinson
Putting the Genome on the Map	179	(22)
Wendy Bickmore
Human Genetics in the Twenty-First Century	201	(24)
Leonid Kruglyak
The Body in Parts: Disease and the Biomedical Sciences in the Twentieth Century	225	(26)
Keith Wailoo
Genetics Meets Genomics: Trends and Implications	251	(4)
David Schlessinger
Scales that Matter: Untangling Complexity in Ecological Systems	255	(32)
Mercedes Pascual
Currents of Change: The Ocean's Role in Climate	287	(18)
Stefan Rahmstorf
Simplicity and Complexity	305
Murray Gell-Mann