Science, the hidden force on society / David T. Suzuki
Introduction and acknowledgments / Lynn Margulis
I. People primates: culture before humans
Intelligent life on earth? / Nicholas Mackintosh
Stressed chimps / Robert Sapolsky
Nearly human / Jane Goodall
Closest of kin / Jordi Sabater Pi
Like ants, bees, and termites, but different / Edward O. Wilson
Can beauty be measured? / Victor Johnston
Science of happiness / Daniel Gilbert
Psychopaths / Robert Hare Anxiet
No one is boss / Daniel Dennett
The hidden self / Oliver Sacks
Locked in the dark / Rodolfo Llinas
Dialogue with fear / Joseph Ledoux
Fretful worry / Kenneth Kendler
II. Animal body-mind: cyclicity and sociality
Drumbeats / Steven Strogatz
Survival, not truth, is imperative / Richard Gregory
Dreaming to learn / Nicholas Humphrey
Music and talk / Diana Deutsch
Prehistory and immortality of the body-mind: the secret code / Sydney Brenner
Beyond the human genome / William Haseltine
The second brain / Phillip Tobias and Ralph Holloway
Immortality from your mother / Douglas Wallace
Inevitability of aging? / Tom Kirkwood
III. Life on an animate planet: bygone biospheres
Life, master of the earth / James E. Lovelock
Life is a mistake / Kenneth H. Nealson
Toward perfection: evolution and purpose / Stephen J. Gould
The code of the dead / Richard Dawkins
Purpose of evolution / Dorion Sagan
Dead or alive?: life as growth / William Day
Our ancestor, the bacterium / Ricardo Guerrero
Different from amoebae / John Bonner
IV. Toward the invisible: from the vast to the miniscule
Walk through an electron cloud / Eugene Chudnovsky
Atomic consciousness / Heinrich Rohrer
Too huge for the atom and too small for the star / Sheldon Lee Glashow
New dimensions / Lisa Randall
Manipulation by dwarves / Nicolas Garcia
Space destroyed and time obliterated / Paul Davies.