Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the UnknownMacmillan, 1 апр. 2010 г. - Всего страниц: 336 Bestselling author Michael Shermer delves into the unknown, from heretical ideas about the boundaries of the universe to Star Trek's lessons about chance and time |
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... evolutionary science , Michael Shermer - who has excelled at the former and become one of our leading defenders of the latter - never writes with anything less than full- throttled engagement . Incisive , penetrating , and mercifully ...
... evolution to see the expressions of those most powerful in our social group , starting with imprinting on the most important faces in our sphere : those of our parents . We also see at work Bacon's idols of the cave in the peculiarities ...
... Evolution is another of those scientific truths with which a number of people still struggle . Leaving out the religious objections ( which are irrele- vant in a scientific discussion ) , the counterintuitive nature of evolution is ...
... evolved independently in separate regions ( after a much earlier exodus out of Africa ) , the University of California , Berkeley , anthropologist Vince Sarich , after examining the new data , confessed : “ I have undergone a conversion ...
... evolutionary theorist Richard Dawkins and the philosopher Daniel Dennett came out of the skeptical closet through ... evolve . Chapter 3 , " Heresies of Science , " presents six heretical ideas that promise to shake up everything we have ...
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Index | 285 |
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Back Cover | 300 |