Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-248).
Introduction -- Sex and the mating game / Sarah Hrdy -- Virus hunters / Luc Montagnier -- Billion-dollar drugs / James Black -- Witch doctors / Thomas Adeoye Lambo -- The abortion pill / Etienne-Emile Baulieu -- Selfish genes / Richard Dawkins -- Exploring time / Farouk El-Baz -- Brain cells at work / Bert Sakmann -- Plague / Jonathan Mann -- Predicting chaos / Norman Packard -- Genes and politics / Mary-Claire King