An ode to symmetry

Joseph Mazur
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Joseph Mazur: Joseph Mazur is the author of The Motion Paradox. He teaches mathematics at Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont 05344, USA.

Nature, 2007, vol. 447, issue 7140, 38-38

Abstract: Spring loaded In Almost Like a Whale, geneticist Steve Jones 'updated' Darwin's Origin of Species. Now in Coral: A Pessimist in Paradise, he does the same for Darwin's earlier Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs. With 150 years or so of hindsight, and with coral in the news as a victim of climate change, Jones has plenty of material to play with. Daniel Pauly — who says he'd have bought the book just for the cover — reviews Coral as one of the 'good reads' in this year's Spring Books special. Elsewhere, Kathleen Taylor reviews The Canon by Natalie Angier. This targets the same market as Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything but takes a different tack — and is shorter! Pat Shipman reviews The Invisible Sex, an antidote to male-dominated anthropology.

Date: 2007
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