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• Author(s): Robert N. Brandon | Richard Burian • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Genetics & GenomicsThis anthology collects some of the most important papers on what is believed to be the major fo...

• Author(s): George Estreich • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Genetics & GenomicsHow new biomedical technologies--from prenatal testing to gene-editing techniques--require us to imagine who counts...

• Author(s): Ian McGonigle • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Genetics & GenomicsAn anthropological study based on ethnographic work in Israel and Qatar explores the relationship between science, pa...

• Author(s): Franklin H. Portugal • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Science & TechnologyHow unassuming government researcher Marshall Nirenberg beat James Watson, Francis Crick, and other world-famous scientists i...

• Author(s): Connie Barlow • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyFrom Gaia to Selfish Genes is a different kind of anthology. Lively excerpts from the popular writings of leading theorists in the li...

• Author(s): Sheila Jasanoff • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsInvestigations into the interplay of biological and legal conceptions of life, from government policies on cloning to DNA p...

• Author(s): Lynn Margulis | Rene Fester • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Genetics & GenomicsThese original contributions by symbiosis biologists and evolutionary theorists address the adequacy of...

• Author(s): Thomas F. Hansen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionEssays on evolvability from the perspectives of quantitative and population genetics, evolutionary developmental biology, system...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): Christopher E. Mason • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Genetics & GenomicsAn argument that we have a moral duty to explore other planets and solar systems--because human life on Earth ...

• Author(s): Paul Wapner • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Environmental Conservation & Protection - GeneralHow environmentalism can reinvent itself in a postnature age: a prop...

• Author(s): Nolan Mccarty | Keith T. Poole | Howard Rosenthal • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Political Ideologies - GeneralUpdated analysis of how the increasing polarizatio...

• Author(s): VILI Lehdonvirta • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Science & Technology PolicyThe rise of the platform economy into statelike dominance over the lives of entrepreneurs, users, and work...