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What Remains to Be Discovered
What Remains to Be Discovered
MAPPING THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE, THE ORIGINS OF LIFE, AND THE FUTURE OF THE HUMAN RACE  
By John Maddox
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents

Contents

Preface
Introduction: The River of Discovery

PART ONE: MATTER

...in which the origins of the universe and of matter are explored, as well as the prospects for a theory of everything

1 Beginning Without End
2 Simplicity Buried in Complexity
3 Everything at Once

PART TWO: LIFE

...in which the origin of life is considered as well as biological machinery, the riddle of the selfish gene, and the next human genome projects

4 The Likelihood of Life
5 Cooperation and Autonomy
6 The Genome and Its Faults
7 Nature's Family Tree

PART THREE: OUR WORLD

...in which the nature of our brain is explained, as well as our greatest invention, mathematics, and how we will avoid the catastrophes of the future

8 Thinking Machines
9 The Numbers Game
10 Avoidance of Calamity

Conclusion: What Lies Ahead

Notes
Index