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Original Minds

From the first cells to unique minds, in the editor's note from Print Issue 46. The post Original Minds appeared first on Nautilus.

t was a pleasure bringing together and for this issue’s cover story. A pleasure because Ball and Lane are two of my favorite science writers. Both translate the daunting languages of biology and physics and more into lucent articles and books that make us feel we are fluent speakers in complex science ourselves. In “,” Ball

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