From the Book - First edition.
Introduction by John Brockman
Evolvability / Richard Dawkins
Genomic imprinting / David Haig
A full-force storm with gale winds blowing / Robert Trivers
What evolution is / Ernst Mayr (with an introduction by Jared Diamond)
Genetics plus time / Steve Jones (in conversation with Edge)
A united biology / E. O. Wilson (with an introduction by Steven Pinker)
Is life analog or digital? / Freeman Dyson
Life: what a concept! / Freeman Dyson, J. Craig Venter, George Church, Dimitar Sasselov, Seth Lloyd, Robert Shapiro (in conversation with Edge)
The gene-centric view: a conversation / Richard Dawkins, J. Craig Venter (with an introduction by John Brockman)
The nature of normal human variety / Armand Marie Leroi
Brains plus brawn / Daniel Lieberman
Mapping the Neanderthal genome / Svante Pääbo
On biocomputation / J. Craig Venter, Ray Kurzweil, Rodney Brooks
Engineering biology / Drew Endy
Eat me before I eat you: a new foe for bad bugs / Kary Mullis
Duck sex and aesthetic evolution / Richard Prum
The adjacent possible / Stuart Kauffman.