This Idea is Brilliant : : Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know
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Includes index.
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.
Contents: Longevity factor. -- Illusion of explanatory depth. -- Synaptic transfer. -- Genetic book of the dead. -- Exaptation. -- Virial theorem. -- Second law of thermodynamics. -- Emergence. -- Natural selection. -- DNA.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Harper Perennial, [2018]
Year Published: 2018
Description: xxvi, 515 pages ; 21 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780062698216
0062698214
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Brockman, John, 1941-
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.
SUBJECTS
Science -- Miscellanea.