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Tables of Contents for The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2001
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
ix
Introduction: Life is a Narrative
xiii
Edward O. Wilson
Iterations of Immortality
1
7
David Berlinske
Harper's Magazine
To Save a Watering Hole
8
7
Mark Cherrington
Discover
New Life in a Death Trap
15
8
Edwin Dobb
Discover
Abortion and Brain Waves
23
11
Gregg Easterbrook
The New Republic
Baby Steps
34
13
Malcolm Gladwell
The New Yorker
In the Forests of Gombe
47
7
Jane Goodall
Orion
The Doubting Disease
54
9
Jerome Groopman
the New Yorker
The Recycled Generation
63
19
Stephen S. Hall
the New York Times Magazine
Endurance Predator
82
8
Bernd Heinrich
Outside
Harpy Eagles
90
6
Edward Hoagland
Orion
Why the Future Doesn't Need Us
96
31
Bill Joy
Wired
A Killing at Dawn
127
5
Ted Kerasote
Audubon
Seeing Scarlet
132
7
Barbara Kingsolver
Steven Hopp
Audubon
The Best Clock in the World
139
8
Verlyn Klinkenborg
Discover
The Wild World's Scotland Yard
147
8
Jon R. Luoma
Audubon
Breeding Discontent
155
10
Cynthia Mills
The Sciences
Ice Station Vostok
165
21
Oliver Morton
Wired
Being Prey
186
10
Val Plumwood
Utne Reader
Troubled Waters
196
11
Sandra Postel
The Sciences
The Genome Warrior
207
31
Richard Preston
The New Yorker
Megatransect
238
15
David Quammen
National Geographic
Inside the Volcano
253
10
Donovan Webster
National Geographic
Contributors' Notes
263
4
Other Notable Science and Nature Writing of 2000
267