Ebook: Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose

Learn about jumping insects with real gears, and the ingenious technology
behind a power-punching shrimp. Enter the strange world of carnivorous
plants. And check out a microscopic protein machine in a bird’s eye that may
work as a GPS device by harnessing quantum entanglement. Join renowned
Brazilian scientist Marcos Eberlin as he uncovers a myriad of artful solutions
to major engineering challenges in chemistry and biology, solutions that point
beyond blind evolution to the workings of an attribute unique to minds—
foresight.

(This book is endorsed by Noble Prize winners)

Contents
Endorsements .5
Dedication .9
1. Foresight in Life .13
2. A World Foreseen for Biochemistry .25
3. The Code of Life .45
4. Life’s Helpers .63
5. Bacteria, Bugs, and Carnivorous Plants .83
6. Birds: A Case Study in Foresight .99
7. Foresight in the Human Form: Reproduction .109
8. Planning for the Senses .123
9. Foresight and the Future of Science .137
Endnotes .149
Acknowledgments .163
Illustration Credits .165
Index .167