Name: Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences
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Author: Edited By Oren Harman And Michael R. Dietrich
ISBN: 9780226569901

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Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences

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Physical Book

Publisher

University Of Chicago Press

Author

Edited By Oren Harman And Michael R. Dietrich

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780226569901

Synopsis "Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences "

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 that went far beyond the run-of-the-mill science of their peers. From the Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who coined the word “biology” in the early nineteenth century, to the American James Lovelock, for whom the Earth is a living, breathing organism, these dreamers innovated in ways that forced their contemporaries to reexamine comfortable truths. With this collection readers will follow Jane Goodall into the hidden world of apes in African jungles and Francis Crick as he attacks the problem of consciousness. Join Mary Lasker on her campaign to conquer cancer and follow geneticist George Church as he dreams of bringing back woolly mammoths and Neanderthals. In these lives and the many others featured in these pages, we discover visions that were sometimes fantastical, quixotic, and even threatening and destabilizing, but always a challenge to the status quo.

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