The river of Dawkins's title is a river of DNA, flowing through time from the beginning of life on earth to the present – and onwards. Dawkins explains that DNA must be thought of as the most sophisticated information system imaginable: 'Life is just bytes and bytes of information,' he writes. Using this perspective, he describes the mechanisms by which evolution has taken place, gradually but inexorably, over a period of three thousand million years. It is the story of how evolution happens, rather than a narrative of what has actually happened in evolution. He discusses current views on the process of human evolution, including the idea that we all trace back to a comparatively recent African 'Eve', and speculates that the 'information explosion' that was unleashed on Earth when DNA came into being has almost certainly happened in other places in the universe.
Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist renowned throughout the world. He was educated at Oxford and taught zoology before becoming the first holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, in 1995. His previous books rank among the most influential intellectual works of our time., They include The Selfish Gene (1976), River Out Of Eden (1995), and Unweaving The Rainbow (1999).
达尔文在一种动物的帮助下放弃了信仰。他写道:“我实在无法说服自己,慈悲为怀、神通广大的神会有计划地创造出姬蜂,并令其蓄意在活生生的毛虫体内进食。”实际上,达尔文逐渐丧失宗教信仰有着更为复杂的原因。他也因为担心会惹恼虔诚信教的妻子艾玛,而不愿提及有关信仰的话...
評分生物学不可阻挡挺进社会学与历史,一本真正的杰作 科普作品的范例。 进化论。 进化论,社会性动物的研究→《社会生物学》新的综合。 进化论,社会性动物之一人类的研究,→进化心理学,行为遗传学。 进化论。基因。 我在读这本书时,正在读《基因》,除了生物数学等课程,生...
評分达尔文在一种动物的帮助下放弃了信仰。他写道:“我实在无法说服自己,慈悲为怀、神通广大的神会有计划地创造出姬蜂,并令其蓄意在活生生的毛虫体内进食。”实际上,达尔文逐渐丧失宗教信仰有着更为复杂的原因。他也因为担心会惹恼虔诚信教的妻子艾玛,而不愿提及有关信仰的话...
評分“基因之河”的意思是DNA之河,DNA在这条河流中流过一个世纪又一个世纪直到现在。每一个物种都有一条河流,不与其他物种的河流交汇。原本在一条河流也可能由于地域隔离的原因渐渐形成分支,然后分支从河流中彻底地分离出去。在同一物种的基因之河中,可以在任何两处地方舀两桶...
評分“本書標題所說的河,指的是一條DNA之河,它是在時間中流淌,而不是在空間流淌。它是一條資訊之河,而不是骨肉之河。在這條河中流淌的,是用於建造軀體的抽象指令,而不是實在的軀體本身。“摘自內文 先前在看過道金斯的成名之作『自私的基因』,深深地為其理論折服,也...
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