Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Foreword: Biology in the Twenty-First Century

ERNST MAYR

Preface: A New Century of Biology

W. JOHN KRESS AND GARY W. BARRETT

Acknowledgments

Contributors

1. Introduction: The New Revolution in Biology

GARY W. BARRETT AND W. JOHN KRESS

2. Bacteria in the Origins of Species: Demise of the Neo-Darwinian Paradigm

LYNN MARGULIS

3. Bodies and Body Plans, and How They Came to Be

MARVALEE H. WAKE

4. Ecosystems: Energetics and Biogeochemistry

GENE E. LIKENS

5. Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution

GORDON H. ORIANS

6. Conserving Biodiversity into the New Century

GHILLEAN T. PRANCE

7. The New Age of Biological Exploration

THOMAS E. LOVEJOY

8. Lumpy Integration of Tropical Wild Biodiversity with Its Society

DANIEL H. JANZEN

9. Biology and the Human Sciences: Pathways of Consilience

EDWARD O. WILSON