The best American science writing 2001 / editor: Timothy Ferris ; Jesse Cohen, series editor.

New York : Ecco Press, [2001], ©2001.

xi, 333 pages ; 24 cm

1st ed.

Transparent stratagems / John Updike -- More than meets the eye / Michael S. Turner -- In mandrill society, life is a girl thing / Natalie Angier -- Life beyond earth / Joel Achenbach -- The small planets / Erik Asphaug -- How come the quantum? / John Archibald Wheeler -- The recycled generation / Stephen S. Hall -- The genome warrior / Richard Preston -- DNA on trial / Peter J. Boyer -- In the company of humans / John Terborgh -- Death of an altruist / James Schwartz -- Darwin's influence on modern thought / Ernst Mayr -- Let them eat fat / Greg Critser -- The he hormone / Andrew Sullivan -- John Rock's error / Malcolm Gladwell -- The mystery of AIDS in South Africa / Helen Epstein -- The virus and the vaccine / Debbie Bookchin and Jim Schumacher -- Syphilis and the shepherd of Atlantis / Stephen Jay Gould -- The good doctor / Tracy Kidder -- Running dry / Jacques Leslie -- Welcome to planet earth / Robert L. Park -- A portrait of the novelist as a young scientist / Alan Lightman -- Science, guided by ethics, can lift up the poor / Freeman J. Dyson.