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Carol Grant Gould

Carol Grant Gould has written about science and scientists for publications ranging from The New York Times to Psychology Today and Harper's. She is coauthor of Biological Science (Norton, 1997), The Honey Bee (Scientific American Library, 1988), Sexual Selection (Scientific American Library, 1989), and The Animal Mind (Scientific American Library, 1994).

The Remarkable Life of William Beebe

Explorer And Naturalist

When William Beebe needed to know what was going on in the depths of the ocean, he had himself lowered a half-mile down in a four-foot steel sphere to see-five times deeper than anyone had ever gone in the 1930s. When he wanted to trace the evolution of pheasants in 1910, he trekked on foot through the mountains and jungles of the Far East to locate every species.