Carving our destiny : scientific research faces a new millennium /
Fitzpatrick, Susan M.,1956-
Bruer, John T.,1949-
Washington, D.C. : J.H. Press,
c2001.
"Essays by the James S. McDonnell Centennial fellows"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Science.