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Natalie Angier knows all that scientists knowand sometimes moreabout the power of symmetry in sexual relations about the brutal courting habits of dolphins about the grand deceit of orchids about the impact of female and male preferences on evolution She knows how scientists go about their work and she describes their ways their visions and their arguments Perhaps most poignantly she understands the complexities and the sad necessity of death The beauty of the natural world lies in the details and most of those details are not the stuff of calendar art she points out