The best American science and nature writing 2000 / edited and with an introduction by David Quammen ; Burkhard Bilger, series editor.

Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000.

xxi, 265 pages ; 21 cm.

Foreword -- Introduction : The vine-tree / by David Quammen -- Men, women, sex, and Darwin / Natalie Angier -- Back to the land / Wendell Berry -- Africa's wild dogs / Richard Conniff -- http://www.wheni̲seṉougheṉough?.com / Paul de Palma -- Something happened / Helen Epstein -- Under water / Anne Fadiman -- The cancer-cluster myth / Atul Gawande -- Clock of ages / Brian Hayes -- That sense of falling / Edward Hoagland -- A new germ theory / Judith Hooper -- Heavy grace / Wendy Johnson -- The wisdom of toads / Ken Lamberton -- The island at the end of the earth / Peter Matthiessen -- Lulu, Queen of the Camels / Cullen Murphy -- The demon in the freezer / Richard Preston -- Brilliant light / Oliver Sacks -- This is not the place / Hampton Sides -- Gorilla warfare / Craig B. Stanford -- String theorists find a Rosetta Stone / Gary Taubes -- Contributors' notes -- Other notable science and nature writing of 1999.

Includes bibliographical references.