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  | | Evolutions(Reprint) Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World by Oren Harman Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2019 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53841-5, ISBN: 0-374-53841-7 "A brilliant lyrical exploration of how modern science illuminates what it means to be human, from the award-winning author of The Price of AltruismWe no longer think, like the ancient Chinese did, that the world was hatched from an egg, or, like the Maori, that it came from the tearing-apart of a love embrace. The Greeks told of a tempestuous Hera and a cunning Zeus, but we now use genes and natural selection to explain fear and desire, ..." |
 | | The Price of Altruism(1st Edition) George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness by Oren Harman Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2011 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-33999-4, ISBN: 0-393-33999-8 "âEnthralling.ââFrans de Waal, The New York Times Book ReviewSurvival of the fittest or survival of the nicest? Since the dawn of time man has contemplated the mystery of altruism, but it was Darwin who posed the question most starkly. From the selfless ant to the stinging bee to the man laying down his life for a stranger, evolution has yielded a goodness that in theory should never be. Set against the sweeping tale of 150 year ..." |
 | | Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences(1st Edition) by Oren Harman, Michael R. Dietrich Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-56987-1, ISBN: 0-226-56987-X "What are the conditions that foster true novelty and allow visionaries to set their eyes on unknown horizons? What have been the challenges that have spawned new innovations, and how have they shaped modern biology? In Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences, editors Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich explore these questions through the lives of eighteen exemplary biologists who had grand and often radical ideas ..." |
 | | Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology by Oren Harman, Bruce Weber, William Dritschilo, Vinciane Despret, David Sepkoski, Mark Borrello, Nathaniel Comfort, Michael Dietrich, Raphael Falk, Tim Horder, David Hull, John Prebble, Jan Saap, Ullica Segrestrale, Ute Deichmann, Garland Allen, Michael Ruse, Daniel Kevles, Professor R. C. Lewontin, James F. Crow, Philip V. Tobias, Michael R. Dietrich Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2009 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-15845-8, ISBN: 0-300-15845-9 "The stories of nineteen scientists--some famous, some forgotten--who stubbornly challenged assumptions and icons in the life sciences This book is the first devoted to modern biology’s innovators and iconoclasts: men and women who challenged prevailing notions in their fields. Some of these scientists were Nobel Prize winners, some were considered cranks or gadflies, some were in fact wrong. The stories of these stubborn dissenters are ..." |
 | | Evolutions Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World (Hardback) by Oren Harman, Ofra Kobliner Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2018 by Apollo ISBN-13: 978-1-78854-757-4, ISBN: 1-78854-757-8 "We may no longer think that the world was hatched from an egg, as the ancient Chinese did, or that our fate is ruled by a capricious Zeus and a resentful Hera. We now use genes to explain desire, and physics to explain the mechanics of the universe and earthly disasters. But are we any the wiser? Has science provided protection from the fires of jealousy and love? Is there no room now for the comforts of mythology? Oren Harman creates g ..." |
 | | Outsider Scientists(Updated) Routes to Innovation in Biology by Oren Harman, Michael R. Dietrich, Samuel Butler Hardcover, 392 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07837-3, ISBN: 0-226-07837-X "Outsider Scientists describes the transformative role played by “outsiders” in the growth of the modern life sciences. Biology, which occupies a special place between the exact and human sciences, has historically attracted many thinkers whose primary training was in other fields: mathematics, physics, chemistry, linguistics, philosophy, history, anthropology, engineering, and even literature. These outsiders brought with them ideas and ..." |
 | | The Price of Altruism(1st Edition) George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness by Oren Harman Hardcover, 464 Pages, Published 2010 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-06778-1, ISBN: 0-393-06778-5 "The moving tale of one man's quest to crack the mystery of altruism, an evolutionary enigma that has haunted scientists since Darwin. Survival of the fittest or survival of the nicest? Since the dawn of time man has contemplated the mystery of altruism, but it was Darwin who posed the question most starkly. From the selfless ant to the stinging bee to the man laying down his life for a stranger, evolution has yielded a goodness that ..." |
 | | Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences(1st Edition) by Oren Harman, Michael R. Dietrich Paperback, 332 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-56990-1, ISBN: 0-226-56990-X "What are the conditions that foster true novelty and allow visionaries to set their eyes on unknown horizons? What have been the challenges that have spawned new innovations, and how have they shaped modern biology? In Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences, editors Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich explore these questions through the lives of eighteen exemplary biologists who had grand and often radical ideas ..." |
 | | Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology(1st Edition) by Oren Harman, Bruce Weber, Vinciane Despret, William Dritschilo, David Sepkoski, Michael Dietrich, Mark Borrello, Nathaniel Comfort, Raphael Falk, Tim Horder, David Hull, John Prebble, Michael Ruse, Jan Saap, Ullica Segrestrale, Ute Deichmann, Garland Allen, Daniel Kevles, R. C. Lewontin, James F. Crow, Philip V. Tobias, Oren Solomon Harman, Michael R. Dietrich Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2008 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-11639-7, ISBN: 0-300-11639-X "This book is the first devoted to modern biology’s innovators and iconoclasts: men and women who challenged prevailing notions in their fields. Some of these scientists were Nobel Prize winners, some were considered cranks or gadflies, some were in fact wrong. The stories of these stubborn dissenters are individually fascinating. Taken together, they provide unparalleled insights into the role of dissent and controversy in science and e ..." |
 | | Outsider Scientists(Updated) Routes to Innovation in Biology by Oren Harman, Michael R. Dietrich Paperback, 392 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07840-3, ISBN: 0-226-07840-X "Outsider Scientists describes the transformative role played by “outsiders” in the growth of the modern life sciences. Biology, which occupies a special place between the exact and human sciences, has historically attracted many thinkers whose primary training was in other fields: mathematics, physics, chemistry, linguistics, philosophy, history, anthropology, engineering, and even literature. These outsiders brought with them ideas and ..." |
 | | Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences by Oren Harman, Michael R. Dietrich 336 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-57007-5, ISBN: 0-226-57007-X "Biology isn't always kind to its dreamers. ... Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences completes our trilogy that began with Rebels , Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology (Yale, 2008) and continued with Outsider Scientists: ..." |
 | | Evolutions by Oren Harman, Ofra Kobliner Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2018 by Head Of Zeus ISBN-13: 978-1-78854-808-3, ISBN: 1-78854-808-6 "We may no longer think that the world was hatched from an egg, as the ancient Chinese did, or that our fate is ruled by a capricious Zeus and a resentful Hera. We now use genes to explain desire, and physics to explain the mechanics of the universe and earthly disasters. But are we any the wiser? Has science provided protection from the fires of jealousy and love? Is there no room now for the comforts of mythology? Oren Harman creates g ..." |
 | | Outsider Scientists Routes to Innovation in Biology by Oren Harman, Michael R. Dietrich 376 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07854-0, ISBN: 0-226-07854-X "is required: “At times, philosophy of science is indistinguishable from theoretical science” (Hull, Philosophy, 88). 10. Hull, Philosophy, xi. 11. David L. Hull, “What Philosophy of Biology Is Not,” Journal ofthe History of Biology 2 (1969), 241–68. 12. Hull, “What Philosophy of Biology Is Not,” 268. 13. H. E. Longino, The Fate ofKnowledge (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002), 1–6, 388; Hull, Science, 1–6, 388. 14. Hull's ..." |
 | | The Price of Altruism George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness by Oren Harman 352 Pages, Published 2010 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-07923-4, ISBN: 0-393-07923-6 "George Price letter to Hubert Humphrey, December 8, 1959, GPP; George Price– Richard Winslow Correspondence, 1959–1961, GPP; No Easy Way draft, circa 1960, GPP. 12. George Price letter to Dr. Nathan S. Kline, October 28, 1958, GPP . 13. George Price letter to Richard Winslow, February 29, 1960, GPP. 14. George Price letter to Robert Latimer, February 13, 1961, GPP; Joan letter to George Price, November 12, 1961, GPP; George Price let ..." |
 | | Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics In Biology by Oren Harman, William Dritschilo, Oren Solomon Harman, Michael R. Dietrich 412 Pages, Published 2008 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-15054-4, ISBN: 0-300-15054-7 "Finding iconoclasts in biology was not as difficult as finding authors who would engage deeply with their re- bellion. Although ... about the nature of orthodoxy and dissent, the impact of institutions on innovation, and the power of personality in science. ... the working assumptions on which “normal” science is based and emphasizes the important role of thinking “outside the box.” We feel that at a time in which the biological sc ..." |
 | | Evolutions(1st Edition) Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World by Oren Solomon Harman Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2018 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-15070-9, ISBN: 0-374-15070-2 "A brilliant lyrical exploration of how modern science illuminates what it means to be human, from the award-winning author of The Price of AltruismWe no longer think, like the ancient Chinese did, that the world was hatched from an egg, or, like the Maori, that it came from the tearing-apart of a love embrace. The Greeks told of a tempestuous Hera and a cunning Zeus, but we now use genes and natural selection to explain fear and desire, ..." |
 | | The Man Who Invented the Chromosome(1st Edition) A Life of Cyril Darlington by Oren Solomon Harman, Os Harman Hardcover, 342 Pages, Published 2004 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-01333-9, ISBN: 0-674-01333-6 " Born by mistake, or connivance, to struggling parents in a small Lancashire cotton town in 1903, an uninspired Darlington inadvertently escaped the obscurity of farming life and rose instead, against all odds, to become within a few short years the world's greatest expert on chromosomes, and one of the most penetrating biological thinkers of the twentieth century. Harman follows Darlington's path from bleak prospects to world fame, sho ..." |
 | | The Price of Altruism George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness. Oren Harman by Oren Solomon Harman Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2011 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-09-953166-1, ISBN: 0-09-953166-6 "When George Price died in January 1975, his funeral in London was attended by five homeless men. Alongside them were Bill Hamilton and John Maynard Smith, two distinguished British evolutionary biologists. All seven men had come to mourn an eccentric American genius who helped to unpick the riddle of how altruism, or unselfish concern for the welfare of others, could exist in a world driven by survival of the fittest and who committed s ..." |
 | | Evolutions Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World by Harman, Oren Mass-Market Paperback, Published 2019 by Apollo ISBN-13: 978-1-78854-758-1, ISBN: 1-78854-758-6 |
 | | The Price of Altruism George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness by Oren Solomon Harman Hardcover, 464 Pages, Published 2010 by Bodley Head ISBN-13: 978-1-84792-062-1, ISBN: 1-84792-062-4 "Survival of the fittest or survival of the nicest? Since the dawn of time, human beings have contemplated the mysteries of altruism - but it was Darwin who posed the question most starkly. From the selfless ant to the stinging bee to the man laying down his life for a stranger, evolution has yielded a goodness that in theory should never exist. "The Price of Altruism" follows the incredible story of the eccentric American genius, George ..." |
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