Volume 94 | Number 6 | November-December 2006
Jeffrey McKee
A review of The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors, by Ann Gibbons. The attention given to high-profile animosities among paleoanthropologists obscures the fact that cooperation is just as prevalent as competition
Daniel Silver
A review of Arthur Cayley: Mathematician Laureate of the Victorian Age, by Tony Crilly, and James Joseph Sylvester, by Karen Hunger Parshall. For a time, these highly regarded mathematicians of 19th-century Britain, pioneers in the development of linear algebra, had day jobs as lawyers
David Orr
A review of Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness, by Erik Reece. According to Reece, mountaintop-removal mining has had a devastating effect on communities and ecosystems in Appalachia
Bettyann Kevles
A review of The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution, by David Quammen. In this concise biography, acclaimed science writer David Quammen examines why it took Darwin so long to publish his revolutionary ideas
Fred Gould
A review of Genes in Conflict, by Austin Burt and Robert Trivers. It may be a surprise to most people to learn that their bodies host parasitic DNA
Larry Squire
A review of In Search of Memory, by Eric R. Kandel. The scientific memoir of a Nobel laureate reveals how the study of psychology in the wake of Freud gave way to a focus on the various cellular and molecular mechanisms operating in the brain
James Bower
A review of 23 Problems in Systems Neuroscience, edited by J. Leo van Hemmen and Terrence J. Sejnowski. A century after David Hilbert outlined essential unsolved problems in mathematics, a number of prominent neuroscientists attempt to do the same for future studies of the brain
David Hart
A review of Technology Matters: Questions to Live With, by David E. Nye. An enlightening—and maddening—text that introduces some of the most important debates in the field of history of technology
Ryan Tweney
A review of The Psychology of Science and the Origins of the Scientific Mind, by Gregory J. Feist. This rich and diverse book makes a strong case for developing the field of psychology of science
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