The Tinkerer's Accomplice
Subtitle: How Design Emerges from Life Itself
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: January 1, 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass., USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780674023536
Subjects: Life sciences: general issues; Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Anatomy & Physiology; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Life Sciences - Evolution; Science / Biology; Adaptation (Physiology); Natural selection
Table of contents: title: Prologue
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: Cleanthes' Dilemma
pagenum: 4; label: 2
title: Bernard Machines
pagenum: 15; label: 3
title: The Joy of Socks
pagenum: 30; label: 4
title: Blood River
pagenum: 50; label: 5
title: Knowledgeable Bones
pagenum: 70; label: 6
title: Embryonic Origami
pagenum: 88; label: 7
title: A Gut Feeling
pagenum: 113; label: 8
title: An Intentional Aside
pagenum: 135; label: 9
title: Points of Light
pagenum: 150; label: 10
title: Pygmalion's Gift
pagenum: 181; label: 11
title: Biology's Bright Lines
pagenum: 206; title: Notes
pagenum: 229; title: References
pagenum: 239; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 269; title: Index
pagenum: 273