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The Nature and Inquiry members are information-based artists. Research is the foundation of Nature and Inquiry discussions. The basis for our work is the referencing of a wide range of research results of scientists, asking questions, generating ideas and sharing information.

See below a bibliography of sources we often turn to for inspiration and research results.

Space and Time 

Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos, Vintage Press, 2004

Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics, Shambhala Press, 2000

Murray Gell-Mann, The Quark and the Jaguar, Adventures in the Simple and
   the Complex, W. H. Freeman, 1994

Allan Savage, The Hubble Atlas of Galaxies (2 Vols.), Carnegie Institution of
   Washington, 1994

John Holland, Time (2nd Ed.), American Sound Press, 1995

Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time, Bantam Books, 1988

Eames/Morrison, Powers of Ten, Scientific American Library, 1982

Guy Murchie, Music of the Spheres (2 Vols.), Houghton Mifflin, 1968 

Light, Matter, and Sound

Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos, Vintage Press, 2004

Joao Magueijo, Faster Than the Speed of Light, Perseus, 2003

John Emsley, Nature’s Building Blocks, Oxford U. Press, 2001

P. W. Atkins, The Periodic Kingdom, BasicBooks, 1995

John Holland, Studies on the Human Ear, American Sound Press, 1993 

John Holland, Sound Waves And their Properties in the Surrounding Media, American Sound Press, 1987

John Gribbon, In Search of Schrodinger’s Cat, Quantum Physics and Reality,
   Bantam Books, 1985

Richard Feynman, QED, The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, Princeton
   U. Press, 1985

Evolution and Change 

Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor’s Tale, Houghton Mifflin, 2004 

Stephen J. Gould, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, Harvard U. Press,
  2002

Lynn Margulis, Dorian Sagan, Acquiring Genomes, A Theory of the Origins Species,
 Basic Books, 2002

Ernst Mayr, What Evolution Is, Basic Books, 2001

Colin Tudge, The Variety of Life, A Survey and a Celebration of All the
   Creatures that Have Ever Lived, Oxford U. Press, 2000

Ian Tattersall, Becoming Human, Harcourt, Brace, 1998

George C. Williams, The Pony Fish’s Glow And Other Clues to Plan and  Purpose in Nature, BasicBooks, 1997

Colin Tudge, The Time Before History, Scribner, 1996

Richard Dawkins, Climbing Mount Improbable, W. W. Norton, 1996

Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden, BasicBooks, 1995

Richard Leakey, The Origin of Humankind, BasicBooks, 1994

Edward O. Wilson, The Diversity of Life, Harvard U. Press, 1992

Ernst Mayr, The Growth of Biological Thought, Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance,
   Harvard U. Press, 1985

Edward O. Wilson, On Human Nature, Harvard U. Press, 1978  

Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology, Harvard U. Press, 1975 (Anniversary Ed.
  2000) 

Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (New Edition), OXford U. Press, 1989
 
Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype, Oxford U. Press, 1982

D’Arcy Thompson, On Growth and Form, Dover, 1942

Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, Princeton U. Press, 1871

Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals,
  Oxford U. Press, 1872

Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, Oxford U. Press, 1859

Life and Death 

Frank Ryan, Darwin’s Blind Spot, Evolution Beyond Natural Selection,
   Houghton Mifflin, 2002

Lynn Margulis, Dorian Sagan, A Symbiotic Planet, Basic Books, 2000

Stuart Kaufman, Investigations, Oxford U. Press, 2000

Richard Lewontin, The Triple Helix, Gene, Organism, and Environment,
  Harvard U. Press, 2000

Colin Tudge, The Engineer in the Garden, Genes and Genetics,
  Hill and Wang, 1993

Lynn Margulis, Dorian Sagan, What is Life?, U. of Cal. Press, 1995

Martin Olomucki, The Chemistry of Life, McGraw-Hill, 1991

Lynn Margulis, Karlene V. Swartz, Five Kingdoms An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth, W. H. Freeman, 1982

Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan, Microcosmos Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution, U. of California Press, 1986

Erwin Schrodinger, What is Life?, Cambridge U. Press, 1944

Sex and Reproduction 

W. D. Hamilton, Narrow Roads of Geneland, Vol. 2: Evolution of Sex,
  Oxford U. Press, 2001

Lynn Margulis, Dorian Sagan, What is Sex?, U. of Cal. Press, 1998

Jared Diamond, Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality, BasicBooks, 1997

Memory and Consciousness

Malcolm Gladwell, Blink, The Power of Thinking Without Thinking,
  Little Brown, 2005

Gerald Edelman, Wider Than the Sky, The Phenomenal Gift of
  Consciousness, Yale U. Press, 2004

Susan Blackmore, Consciousness, Oxford U. Press, 2004

John Holland, Amy Robinson, Epochs of Consciousness, American
  Sound Press, 2000

Larry Squire, Eric Kandel, Memory, From Mind to Molecules,
  Scientific American Library, 1999

Daniel Dennett, Kinds of Minds Toward an Understanding of Consciousness,  BasicBooks, 1996

John Eccles, Evolution of the Brain, Routledge, 1989

Robert Ornstein, Richard Thompson, David Maccaulay, The Amazing Brain,  Houghton Mifflin, 1984

Charles J. Lumsden, E. O. Wilson, Promethean Fire Reflections on the Origin  of Mind, Harvard U. Press 1983

Language and Syntax 

William Calvin, and Derek Bikerton, Lingua Ex Machina, M.I.T. Press, 2000

William Calvin, How Brains Think, Basic Books, 1996

Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct How the Mind Creates Language, HarperCollins, 1994

Sleep and Dreams 

J. Allan Hobson, The Chemistry of Conscious States, Little Brown, 1994

J. Allen Hobson, The Dreaming Brain, Basic Books, 1988

Carl Jung, Dreams, Princeton U. Press, 1974

Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Vintage Books, 1965

Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon (1965) 1900 

Society and Culture

Jared Diamond, Collapse, Viking Press, 2005

Robert Trivers, Natural Selection and Social Theory, Selected Papers of
  Robert Trivers, Oxford U. Press, 2002

Steve Olson, Mapping Human History, Discovering the Past Through Our Genes,
  Houghton Mifflin, 2002

Bryan Sykes, The Seven Daughters of Eve, W. W. Norton, 2001

Robert Wright, Non-Zero, The Logic of Human Destiny, Pantheon Books,
  2000

Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel, W. W. Norton, 1999

Susan Blackmore, The Meme Machine, Oxford U. Press, 1999

Stephan Molnar, Human Variation, Races, Types, and Ethnic Groups,
  Prentice-Hall, 1998

W. D. Hamilton, Narrow Roads of Geneland, Vol 1: Evolution of
  Social Behavior, W. H. Freeman, 1996

Love and Emotion

Helen Fisher, Why We Love, The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love,
  2005

Knowledge and Information 

Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate, The Modern Denial of Human Nature,
  Viking Press, 2000

Edward O. Wilson, Consilience, The Unity of Knowledge, Knopf, 1998

Art and Science

Stephen Wilson, Information Arts, Intersections of Art, Science, and
   Technology, Leonardo Books, 2000

Priya Hemenway, Divine Proportion, PHI in Art, Nature, and Science, 2000

Steven Mithen, The Prehistory of the Mind, The Cognitive Origins of Art and
  Science, Thames and Hudson, 1996
   
Miscellaneous 

W. D. Hamilton, Narrow Roads of Geneland, Vol. 3: Last Words, Oxford
   U. Press, 2005

Margot Kelley, Local Treasures, Geocaching Across America, Center Books
   on American Places, 2005

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics, HarperCollins, 2005

Harold Morswitz, The Emergence of Everything, How the World Became Complex,
   Oxford U. Press, 2002

Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire, Random House, 2001

Connie Barlow, The Ghosts of Evolution, Basic Books, 2000

Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point, Little Brown, 2000

Natalie Angier, Woman, An Intimate Geography, Houghton Mifflin, 1999

John McPhee, Annals of the Former World, Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 1998

Stuart Kaufman, At Home in the Universe, Oxford U. Press, 1995

Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, Bantam Books, 1995

Francis Crick, The Astonishing Hypothesis, The Scientific Search for the Soul,
  Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1994

Daniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained, Back Bay Books, 1991

Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses, Vintage Books, 1990

Carl Jung, Synchonicity, Princeton U. Press, 1973

Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us, Oxford U. Press, 1950

Henry David Thoreau, Faith in a Seed, The Dispersion of Seeds,
  Island Press, (1860) 1993

Henry David Thoreau, Wild Fruits, W. W. Norton, (1861) 2000

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