A collection of essays by leading scientists, and includes essays by science writer Carl Zimmer, historian Janet Browne, and a foreword by journalist David Quam

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The central concern of this book is with the "prediction problem" in biomedical research. In particular, the authors examine the use of animal models to predict

Everything you were taught about evolution is wrong.

Does evolution make faith superfluous? Part One of this book looks across the whole spectrum of biology—from molecules to ecosystems to human societies—and