Best American Science & Nature Writing

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000

Best American Science & Nature Writing #1

Burkhard Bilger, David Quammen with Natalie Angier (Contributor), Wendell Berry (Contributor), Richard Conniff (Contributor), Paul De Palma (Contributor), Helen Epstein (Contributor), Anne Fadiman (Contributor), Atul Gawande (Contributor), Brian Hayes (Contributor), Edward Hoagland (Contributor), Judith Hooper (Contributor), Wendy Johnson (Contributor), Ken Lamberton (Contributor), Peter Matthiessen (Contributor), Cullen Murphy (Contributor), Richard Preston (Contributor), Oliver Sacks (Contributor), Hampton Sides (Contributor), Craig B. Stanford (Contributor), Gary Taubes (Contributor), John McPhee (Contributor), David Guterson (Contributor)

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265 pages | first published 2000

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2001

Best American Science & Nature Writing #2

Burkhard Bilger, Edward O. Wilson with David Berlinski (Contributor), Mark Cherrington (Contributor), Edwin Dobb (Contributor), Gregg Easterbrook (Contributor), Malcolm Gladwell (Contributor), Jane Goodall (Contributor), Jerome Groopman (Contributor), Stephen S. Hall (Contributor), Bernd Heinrich (Contributor), Edward Hoagland (Contributor), Bill Joy (Contributor), Ted Kerasote (Contributor), Barbara Kingsolver (Contributor), Verlyn Klinkenborg (Contributor), Jon R. Luoma (Contributor), Cynthia Mills (Contributor), Oliver Morton (Contributor), Val Plumwood (Contributor), Sandra Postel (Contributor), Richard Preston (Contributor), David Quammen (Contributor), Donovan Webster (Contributor), Steven L. Hopp (Contributor)

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272 pages | first published 2001

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2002

Best American Science & Nature Writing #3

Tim Folger, Natalie Angier with Roy Baumeister (Contributor), Burkhard Bilger (Contributor), K.C. Cole (Contributor), Richard Conniff (Contributor), Harry Marshall (Contributor), Frederick C. Crews (Contributor), Barbara Ehrenreich (Contributor), H. Bruce Franklin (Contributor), Malcolm Gladwell (Contributor), Gary Greenberg (Contributor), Gordon Grice (Contributor), Blaine Harden (Contributor), Robert M. Hazen (Contributor), Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (Contributor), Garret Keizer (Contributor), Verlyn Klinkenborg (Contributor), Robert Kunzig (Contributor), Anne Matthews (Contributor), Steve Mirsky (Contributor), Judith Newman (Contributor), Dennis Overbye (Contributor), Chet Raymo (Contributor), Eric Schlosser (Contributor), Daniel Smith (Contributor), Peter Stark (Contributor), Clive Thompson (Contributor), Joy Williams (Contributor), Karen Wright (Contributor)

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309 pages | first published 2002

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003

Best American Science & Nature Writing #4

Richard Dawkins, Tim Folger with Natalie Angier (Contributor), Tim Appenzeller (Contributor), Alan Burdick (Contributor), Clark R. Chapman (Contributor), Alan W. Harris (Contributor), David Ewing Duncan (Contributor), Timothy Ferris (Contributor), Ian Frazier (Contributor), James Gorman (Contributor), Charles Hirshberg (Contributor), Brenden I. Koerner (Contributor), Elizabeth Kolbert (Contributor), Andrew Lawler (Contributor), Daniel Lazare (Contributor), Elizabeth F. Loftus (Contributor), Charles C. Mann (Contributor), Bill McKibben (Contributor), Steven Olson (Contributor), Dennis Overbye (Contributor), Steven Pinker (Contributor), Oliver Sacks (Contributor), Steve Silberman (Contributor), Adam Summers (Contributor), Gary Taubes (Contributor), Bruce Watson (Contributor), William Speed Weed (Contributor), Scott Weidensaul (Contributor), Steven Weinberg (Contributor), Ted Williams (Contributor), Edward O. Wilson (Contributor)

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324 pages | first published 2003

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004

Best American Science & Nature Writing #5

Tim Folger, Steven Pinker with Scott Atran (Contributor), Ronald Bailey (Contributor), Phillip M. Boffey (Contributor), Austin Bunn (Contributor), Jennet Conant (Contributor), Daniel C. Dennett (Contributor), Gregg Easterbrook (Contributor), Garrett G. Fagan (Contributor), Jeffrey M. Friedman (Contributor), Atul Gawande (Contributor), Horace Freeland Judson (Contributor), Geoffrey Nunberg (Contributor), Mike O'Connor (Contributor), Peggy Orenstein (Contributor), Virginia Postrel (Contributor), Jonathan Rauch (Contributor), Chet Raymo (Contributor), Ron Rosenbaum (Contributor), Steve Sailer (Contributor), Robert Sapolsky (Contributor), Eric Scigliano (Contributor), Meredith Small (Contributor), Max Tegmark (Contributor), Nicholas Wade

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209 pages | first published 2004

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2005

Best American Science & Nature Writing #6

Tim Folger, Jonathan Weiner with Natalie Angier (Contributor), Connie Bruck (Contributor), Frederick Crews (Contributor), Jared Diamond (Contributor), Jenny Everett (Contributor), Timothy Ferris (Contributor), Malcolm Gladwell (Contributor), Jerome Groopman (Contributor), John Horgan (Contributor), Jennifer Kahn (Contributor), Robert Kunzig (Contributor), William Langewiesche (Contributor), Bill McKibben (Contributor), James McManus (Contributor), Sherwin B. Nuland (Contributor), Jeffrey M. O'Brien (Contributor), Ian Parker (Contributor), Oliver Sacks (Contributor), Michael Specter (Contributor), Cliff Stoll (Contributor), Ellen Ullman (Contributor), William Speed Weed (Contributor), Carl Zimmer (Contributor)

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304 pages | first published 2005

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006

Best American Science & Nature Writing #7

Brian Greene, Tim Folger with Natalie Angier (Contributor), Drake Bennett (Contributor), Larry Cahill (Contributor), Michael Chorost (Contributor), Daniel C. Dennett (Contributor), Frans B. M. de Waal (Contributor), David Dobbs (Contributor), Mark Dowie (Contributor), John Hockenberry (Contributor), John Horgan (Contributor), Gordon Kane (Contributor), Kevin Krajick (Contributor), Robert Kunzig (Contributor), Juan Maldacena (Contributor), Charles C. Mann (Contributor), Chris Mooney (Contributor), Dennis Overbye (Contributor), Paul Raffaele (Contributor), Daniel Roth (Contributor), Jessica Snyder Sachs (Contributor), Oliver Sacks (Contributor), David Samuels (Contributor), Josh Schollmeyer (Contributor), Moncef Zouali (Contributor)

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290 pages | first published 2006

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007

Best American Science & Nature Writing #8

Richard Preston, Tim Folger with Paul Bennett (Contributor), Susan Casey (Contributor), Richard Conniff (Contributor), Alison Hawthorne Deming (Contributor), Brian Doyle (Contributor), Helen Fields (Contributor), Patricia Gadsby (Contributor), James Gleick (Contributor), John Horgan (Contributor), William Langewiesche (Contributor), John Lehrer (Contributor), Michael D. Lemonick (Contributor), Jeffrey A. Lockwood (Contributor), Lynn Margulis (Contributor), Emily Case (Contributor), Steve Olson (Contributor), Michael Perry (Contributor), Heather Pringle (Contributor), Jonathan Rauch (Contributor), Michael Rosenwald (Contributor), Bonnie J. Rough (Contributor), Robert M. Sapolksy (Contributor), John Seabrook (Contributor), Bill Sherwonit (Contributor), Michael Shnayerson (Contributor), Meredith F. Small (Contributor), Robert H. Socolow (Contributor), Stephen W. Pacala (Contributor), Neil deGrasse Tyson (Contributor), Ethan Watters (Contributor)

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300 pages | first published 2007

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008

Best American Science & Nature Writing #9

Tim Folger, Jerome Groopman with John Cohen (Contributor), John Colapinto (Contributor), Christopher J. Conselice (Contributor), Gareth Cook (Contributor), C. Josh Donlan (Contributor), Freeman Dyson (Contributor), Steve Featherstone (Contributor), Michael Finkel (Contributor), James Geary (Contributor), Robin Marantz Henig (Contributor), Edward Hoagland (Contributor), Olivia Judson (Contributor), Walter Kirn (Contributor), Andrew Lawler (Contributor), Jon Mooallem (Contributor), Ian Parker (Contributor), Todd Pitock (Contributor), David Quammen (Contributor), Ron Rosenbaum (Contributor), Oliver Sacks (Contributor), Michael Specter (Contributor), Jeffrey Toobin (Contributor), Andreas Von Bubnoff (Contributor), Florence Williams (Contributor)

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330 pages | first published 2008

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009

Best American Science & Nature Writing #10

Elizabeth Kolbert, Tim Folger with Wendell Berry (Contributor), John Broome (Contributor), Nicholas Carr (Contributor), Chris Carroll (Contributor), Andrew Curry (Contributor), Keay Davidson (Contributor), Douglas Fox (Contributor), Adam Frank (Contributor), Atul Gawande (Contributor), David Grimm (Contributor), Stephen S. Hall (Contributor), Sue Halpern (Contributor), Walter Isaacson (Contributor), Frederick Kaufman (Contributor), Virginia Morell (Contributor), J. Madeleine Nash (Contributor), Michelle Nijhuis (Contributor), Benjamin Phelan (Contributor), Virginia Postrel (Contributor), David Quammen (Contributor), Joshua Roebke (Contributor), Oliver Sacks (Contributor), Mark A. Smith (Contributor), Michael Specter (Contributor), Patrick Symmes (Contributor), Gary Wolf (Contributor)

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328 pages | first published 2009