杏吧原创

1. The Ancestor鈥檚 Tale by Richard Dawkins, Houghton Mifflin
2. Big Bang by Simon Singh, Fourth Estate/HarperCollins
3. The God Gene by Dean Hamer, Doubleday
4. The Agile Gene by Matt Ridley, Perennial/HarperCollins
5. Earth: An intimate history by Richard Fortey, Knopf
6. The Future of Ice: A journey into cold by Gretel Ehrlich, Pantheon/Random House
7. On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins with Sandra Blakeslee, Times Books
8. The Architecture and Design of Man and Woman by Alexander Tsiaras and Barry Werth, Doubleday
9. Diet for a Dead Planet by Christopher D. Cook, The New Press
10. Pushing the Limits by Henry Petroski, Knopf

Information supplied by Powell鈥檚, Portland, Oregon (fax 001 503 228 4631), for bestsellers in popular science first published in hardback or paperback in the US in the past year.

Genes and geoscience seem to be gripping the people of Portland. Dawkins and Singh held the same positions last time we heard from Oregon, on 11 December 2004. The rising star is Dean Hamer, who found fame saying he had found a gene for being gay, and who opens The God Gene with a tale of Tenkai, born Michael Hoffman, who 鈥渆xperimented with every spiritual system and mystical tradition he encountered鈥�. What next, a gene coding for stereotypes of Oregonians?