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Tables of Contents for The Best American Science Writing 2001
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
vii
Timothy Ferris
Transparent Stratagems
1
2
John Updike
More Than Meets the Eye
3
10
Michael S. Turner
In Mandrill Society, Life Is a Girl Thing
13
6
Natalie Angier
Life Beyond Earth
19
13
Joel Achenbach
The Small Planets
32
9
Erik Asphaug
How Come the Quantum?
41
3
John Archibald Wheeler
The Recycled Generation
44
17
Stephen S. Hall
The Genome Warrior
61
29
Richard Preston
DNA on Trial
90
22
Peter J. Boyer
In the Company of Humans
112
8
John Terborgh
Death of an Altruist
120
14
James Schwartz
Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought
134
9
Ernst Mayr
Let Them Eat Fat
143
11
Greg Critser
The He Hormone
154
17
Andrew Sullivan
John Rock's Error
171
16
Malcolm Gladwell
The Mystery of AIDS in South Africa
187
25
Helen Epstein
The Virus and the Vaccine
212
20
Debbie Bookchin
Jim Schumacher
Syphilis and the Shepherd of Atlantis
232
15
Stephen Jay Gould
The Good Doctor
247
28
Tracy Kidder
Running Dry
275
27
Jacques Leslie
Welcome to Planet Earth
302
8
Robert L. Park
A Portrait of the Novelist as a Young Scientist
310
3
Alan Lightman
Science, Guided by Ethics, Can Lift Up the Poor
313
4
Freeman J. Dyson
About the Contributors
317