Ahead of the curve. Volume 2 : hidden breakthroughs in the biosciences

• Tác giả: Dany Spencer Adams, Michael Levin
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-0750316750
• ISBN-13: 978-0750316767
• ISBN-13: 978-0750316774
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 574.09 [Unassigned]
• Thông tin xuất bản: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, 2018
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (various pagings) : , illustrations (some color).
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 160884
• Chủ đề: 1. Discoveries in science; 2. Life sciences; 3. Biophysics; 4. SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biophysics

Includes bibliographical references.

Tóm tắt

The popular conception of science is of a steady, upward climb of progress. The reality is not that simple. Highly significant discoveries often stay unrecognized for decades, particularly if they conflict with the current paradigm or extend it in ways hard to imagine at the time. Since Volume 1 of Ahead of the Curve, the editors have continued to collect papers they believe are important scientific contributions and have gotten lost due to the sheer volume of data and the dominance of the latest trend, whatever it may be. The pioneers in this book took such creative leaps that they essentially started new branches of inquiry.