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Tables of Contents for The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
ix
 
Introduction: The Vine-Tree
xiii
 
David Quammen
Men, Women, Sex, and Darwin
1
13
Natalie Angier
Back to the Land
14
8
Wendell Berry
Africa's Wild Dogs
22
12
Richard Conniff
http://www.when_is_enough_enough?.com
34
14
Paul De Palma
Something Happened
48
15
Helen Epstein
Under Water
63
4
Anne Fadiman
The Cancer-Cluster Myth
67
8
Atul Gawande
Clock of Ages
75
12
Brian Hayes
That Sense of Falling
87
4
Edward Hoagland
A New Germ Theory
91
23
Judith Hooper
Heavy Grace
114
2
Wendy Johnson
The Wisdom of Toads
116
9
Ken Lamberton
The Island at the End of the Earth
125
10
Peter Matthiessen
Lulu, Queen of the Camels
135
15
Cullen Murphy
The Demon in the Freezer
150
29
Richard Preston
Brilliant Light
179
30
Oliver Sacks
This Is Not the Place
209
26
Hampton Sides
Gorilla Warfare
235
10
Craig B. Stanford
String Theorists Find a Rosetta Stone
245
12
Gary Taubes
Contributors' Notes
257
4
Other Notable Science and Nature Writing of 1999
261