Book Description
In this highly readable collection of original essays, five eminent authors probe the twisting historical trail of science. Jonathan Miller, Oliver Sacks, and Daniel Kevles show why some discoveries and insights emerge with great promise, are discarded or forgotten, then re-emerge as important years later. Richard Lewontin and Stephen Jay Gould suggest deep and largely unacknowledged distortions in the way scientists and popularizers alike conceive the structure of the world and its natural history.
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In these essays, Jonathan Miller, Oliver Sacks and Daniel Kevles show how and why some discoveries and insights in science emerge with great promise, only to be discarded or forgotten, then re-emerge years later as important. Richard Lewontin and Stephen Jay Gould suggest deep and largely unacknowledged distortions in the way scientists and popularizers alike conceive the sturcture of the world and its natural history. Illustrations.
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