Mind, life, and universe : conversations with great scientists of our time / edited by Lynn Margulis and Eduardo Punset.

White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., [2007], ©2007.

xx, 358 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

"A Sciencewriters book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-345) and index.

Pt. 1: People primates. Culture before humans ; Attractiveness ; Anxiety -- Pt. 2: Animal body-mind. Cyclicity and sociality ; Prehistory and immortality of the body-mind -- Pt. 3: Life on an animate planet. Bygone biospheres ; Toward perfection ; Dead or alive? -- Pt. 4: Toward the invisible. From the vast to the minuscule.

Intelligent life on earth? / Nicholas Mackintosh -- Stressed chimps / Robert Sapolsky -- Nearly human / Jane Goodall -- A question of degree / Jordi Sabater Pi -- Like ants, bees, and termites, but different / Edward O. Wilson -- Can beauty be measured? / Victor Johnston -- Science of happiness / Daniel Gilbert -- Psychopaths / Robert Hare -- No one is boss / Daniel Dennett -- The hidden self / Oliver Sacks -- Locked in the dark / Rodolfo Llińás -- Dialogue with fear / Joseph Ledoux -- Fretful worry / Kenneth Kendler -- Drumbeats / Steven Strogatz -- Survival, not truth, is imperative / Richard Gregory -- Dreaming to learn / Nicholas Humphrey -- Music and talk / Diana Deutsch -- The secret code / Sydney Brenner -- Beyond the human genome / William Haseltine -- The second brain / Phillip Tobias and Ralph Holloway -- Immortality from your mother / Douglas Wallace -- Inevitability of aging? / Tom Kirkwood -- Life, master of the earth / James E. Lovelock -- Life is a mistake / Kenneth H. Nealson -- Evolution and purpose / Stephen Jay Gould -- The code of the dead / Richard Dawkins -- Purpose of evolution / Dorion Sagan -- Life as growth / William Day -- Our ancestor, the bacterium / Ricardo Guerrero -- Different from amoebae / John Bonner -- Walk through a cloud of electrons / Eugene Chudnovsky -- Atomic consciousness / Heinrich Rohrer -- Too huge for the atom, too tiny for the star / Sheldon Lee Glashow -- New dimensions / Lisa Randall -- Manipulation by dwarves / Nicoĺás García -- Space destroyed and time obliterated / Paul Davies.