Book Reviews
- Bruce Alberts, et al.: Essential Cell Biology*
An Introduction to the Molecular Biology of the Cell
- Gregory Bateson: Mind and Nature*
A Necessary Unity
- Robert E. Blankenship: Molecular Mechanisms of Photosynthesis*
- molecular detail in its broader context
- Russell Foster, Leon Kreitzman: Rhythms of Life*
The Biological Clocks that Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing
- Marc D. Hauser: The Evolution of Communication*
- neurobiological, ontogenetic, adaptive, and psychological approaches
- Christopher Langton: Artificial Life
- articles from the first three issues of the journal
- Eleanor Lawrence: Henderson's Dictionary of Biological Terms
- Armand Marie Leroi: The Lagoon*
How Aristotle Invented Science
- Richard Levins, Richard Lewontin: The Dialectical Biologist
- essays on evolution, genetics, and the politics of biology
- Richard Lewontin: It Ain't Necessarily So
The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions
- Stephen F. Mason: Chemical Evolution*
Origin of the Elements, Molecules, and Living Systems
- Jacques Monod: Chance and Necessity
An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology
- Michael P. Murphy, Luke A.J. O'Neill: What is Life? The Next Fifty Years
Speculations on the Future of Biology
- Matthew H. Nitecki, Antoni Hoffman: Neutral Models in Biology
- in genetics, ecology, evolution, and paleontology
- Paul Rabinow: Making PCR
A Story of Biotechnology
- Stéphane Robin, et al.: DNA, Words and Models
Statistics of Exceptional Words
- Steven Rose: Lifelines
Biology, Freedom, Determinism
- Robert A. Wilson: Species
New Interdisciplinary Papers
I first became really interested in biology at age ten, when friends of
the family (both academics in the biological sciences) gave me a copy of
Life: Cells, Organisms, Populations (E.O. Wilson et al., Sinauer
Associates 1977) for Christmas. That book was a major influence on me:
not only did it leave me with a life-long fascination with biology,
but I acquired my basic sex education from it.
I have no formal training in biology, however. In fact, as a result
of my skipping year 9 at school, I don't think I have ever done a
single biology course!