- Genome: Autobiography of a species in 23 chapters by Matt Ridley, HarperCollins
- Life is a Miracle: An essay against modern superstition by Wendell Berry, Counterpoint Press
- The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard Feynman, edited by Jeffrey Robins and Freeman Dyson, Perseus Press
- A Passion for DNA by James Watson, Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory Press
- Galileo鈥檚 Daughter by Dava Sobel, Walker
- Genes, Languages and Peoples by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, translated by Mark Seielstad, North Point Press
- It Ain鈥檛 Necessarily So by Richard Lewontin, New York Review of Books
- Something New Under the Sun by J. R. McNeill and Paul Kennedy, W. W. Norton
- Robo Sapiens: Evolution of a new species by Peter Menzel and Faith D鈥橝luisio, MIT Press
- Advent of the Algorithm by David Berlinski, Harcourt Brace
Wendell Berry has interesting ideas: 鈥淚t may turn out that the most powerful
and most destructive change of modern times has been a change in language: the
rise of the image, or metaphor, of the machine . . . mind as computer, one鈥檚
thoughts are 鈥榠nputs鈥�, other people鈥檚 responses are 鈥榝eedback鈥�. And the body is
thought of as a machine.鈥� Try getting this metaphor out of your mind. Difficult,
isn鈥檛 it?
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