The Best American Science Writing 2008

Author:
Various
Publisher:
Ecco/Harper
Reviewed in:
Fall 2008
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One NASW member is included in this anthology: Carl Zimmer, a freelance from Guilford, Conn., for "Evolved for Cancer?" (Scientific American, January 2007). He wrote that natural selection is not natural perfection. "Living creatures have evolved some remarkably complex adaptations, but we are still very vulnerable to disease. Among the most tragic of those ills — and perhaps most enigmatic — is cancer."