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- Pedro DomingosInterview
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. It’s a great and accessible book whose ideas apply well beyond biology. The idea of natural selection was inspired by economics, and the kind of evolutionary process the book describes is everywhere – notably in technology. One whole school of machine learning, as I mentioned…
- Mark MaslinInterview
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- Dick PassinghamInterview
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. Darwin was not the first person to have the ideas of evolution and of natural selection but in this book he set down so much evidence that all but those who are prejudiced for religious reasons have to be convinced. With Newton’s Principia Mathematica this is the greatest book…
- Andrew KnollInterview
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is the foundational text of modern biology. That said, what recommends it 150 years after publication is the quality of Darwin’s writing. He was a superb communicator as well as a bold thinker. I’d also recommend The Meaning of Fossils by Martin Rudwick, an illuminating account…
- Michael ShermerInterview
Science books. Anything by: Carl Sagan, Jared Diamond, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, Alison Gopnik, Sam Harris, Carol Tavris, Lawrence Krauss, Janna Levin, Brian Greene, Lisa Randall, Sean Carroll, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow, Robert Wright, Matt Ridley, and others on bookshelves you usually…
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