This idea is brilliant
Subtitle: lost, overlooked, and underappreciated scientific concepts everyone should know
By: edited by John Brockman
Contributors: Milner, Yuri; Waytz, Adam; Rowan, David; Dawkins, Richard, 1941-; Fitch, W. Tecumseh; Lloyd, Seth, 1960-; Pinker, Steven, 1954-; Lisi, Antony Garrett; Losos, Jonathan B.; Church, George M. (George McDonald)
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 515
ISBN-13: 9780062698216
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Science; Miscellanea
Description: Presents essays responding to a question about what scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known, written by such authors as Jared Diamond, Richard Thaler, Richard Dawkins, Lisa Randall, Steven Pinker, and Carlo Rovelli.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Longevity factor / Yuri Milner; title: Illusion of explanatory depth / Adam Waytz; title: Synaptic transfer / David Rowan; title: Genetic book of the dead / Richard Dawkins; title: Exaptation / W. Tecumseh Fitch; title: Virial theorem / Seth Lloyd; title: Second law of thermodynamics / Steven Pinker; title: Emergence / Antony Garrett Lisi; title: Natural selection / Jonathan B Losos; title: DNA / George M Church.