DOMINIC W. MASSARO, editor
University of California, Santa Cruz

Meditations on the Nature of Life, Complexity, Consciousness, the Universe and Everything

Investigations
By Stuart A. Kauffman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xii + 287 pp. Cloth, $30..

Stuart Kauffman thinks big and writes outrageously. A highprofile theoretical biologist and founding member of the Santa Fe Institute, Kauffman has made a career of crossing disciplinary lines, bringing back to his colleagues new ideas and perspectives. In the mid-1990s he began gathering his ideas in books written for a general audience. Investigations is his third and latest book.