The third culture / by John Brockman.
The third culture / by John Brockman.
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New York : Simon & Schuster, c1995.
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T0385502
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English
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413 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Introduction: The Emerging Third Culture -- Ch. 1. "A Package of Information" / George C. Williams -- Ch. 2. "The Pattern of Life's History" / Stephen Jay Gould -- Ch. 3. "A Survival Machine" / Richard Dawkins -- Ch. 4. "Biology Is Just a Dance" / Brian Goodwin -- Ch. 5. "Why Is There So Much Geneti...
Ch. 18. "The Synthetic Path" / Paul Davies -- Ch. 19. "Plectics" / Murray Gell-Mann -- Ch. 20. "Order for Free" / Stuart Kauffman -- Ch. 21. "A Dynamical Pattern" / Christopher G. Langton -- Ch. 22. "The Second Law of Organization" / J. Doyne Farmer -- Ch. 23. "Close to the Singularity / W. Daniel H...
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Publisher
New York : Simon & Schuster, c1995.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c1995.
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The Third Culture is an eye-opening look at the intellectual culture of today - in which science, not literature or philosophy, takes center stage in the debate over human nature and the nature of the universe. Thirty-five years ago, C. P. Snow, in a now famous essay, wrote about the polarization of the "two cultures" - literary intellectuals on th...
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The third culture / by John Brockman.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-397) and index.
Transferred from N500/189.
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c1995.
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T0385502
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74VMBVRQQ6DO
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0684803593
9780684803593 :
0684803593 :
9780684803593
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500
MMS ID
991002383439702626
