圖書標籤: 科普 基因 生物 醫學 英文原版 生物學 遺傳學 biology
发表于2024-07-12
The Gene pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a magnificent history of the gene and a response to the defining question of the future: What becomes of being human when we learn to “read” and “write” our own genetic information?
The extraordinary Siddhartha Mukherjee has a written a biography of the gene as deft, brilliant, and illuminating as his extraordinarily successful biography of cancer. Weaving science, social history, and personal narrative to tell us the story of one of the most important conceptual breakthroughs of modern times, Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices.
Throughout the narrative, the story of Mukherjee’s own family—with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness—cuts like a bright, red line, reminding us of the many questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the laboratory to the real world. In superb prose and with an instinct for the dramatic scene, he describes the centuries of research and experimentation—from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Morgan to Crick, Watson and Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first century innovators who mapped the human genome.
As The New Yorker said of The Emperor of All Maladies, “It’s hard to think of many books for a general audience that have rendered any area of modern science and technology with such intelligence, accessibility, and compassion…An extraordinary achievement.” Riveting, revelatory, and magisterial history of a scientific idea coming to life, and an essential preparation for the moral complexity introduced by our ability to create or “write” the human genome, The Gene is a must-read for everyone concerned about the definition and future of humanity. This is the most crucial science of our time, intimately explained by a master.
Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction, and The Laws of Medicine. He is the editor of Best Science Writing 2013Mukherjee is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician and researcher. A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and Harvard Medical School. He has published articles in Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, The New York Times, and Cell. He lives in New York with his wife and daughters.
眾病之王實在寫得太好,這本相較之下,故事性上弱很多,但依然是好科普
評分條理清楚,簡單明瞭,文筆也好。其中有幾段關於基因學發展史以及基因與人類曆史相互作用的文字真是怎麼讀都不厭。2018年的第一本書,非常值得。
評分現代科學就是把東西打破,在組閤起來的過程
評分現代科學就是把東西打破,在組閤起來的過程
評分如果不寫他自己傢那點破事就更好瞭
基因、原子、字节、像素、纳米……等等,科学的进步不仅意味着广度,也意味着深度,这与传统文化的蒙昧已经大不相同,对中医来说,基因是不可思议的。 但古人也有他们的血统论,乃至红色基因云云。威尔逊在《社会生物学》《论人的天性》等作品中提出一个思想,即基因是一切机...
評分An epic book about the past, present and future of gene research and application. Another dictionary-sized book. Filled with interesting stories and anecdotes about the history of gene research, it also raises serious ethical questions on its future: Can hu...
評分An epic book about the past, present and future of gene research and application. Another dictionary-sized book. Filled with interesting stories and anecdotes about the history of gene research, it also raises serious ethical questions on its future: Can hu...
評分有别于其他科学,基因相关的研究,不仅在实验室里炙手可热,普通人也很关注该领域。它的应用前景太广阔了。假基因之手,人类简直要无所不能了:今日医学界的不治之症将有法可依,改善、优化、甚至创造人类都不再遥远,难怪有人说,后人类时代将至。 果真如此吗?肿瘤专家、知名...
評分By比尔·盖茨 梅琳达(Melinda)和我建立基金会的那一年,克林顿总统在白宫召见了一些世界上最伟大的科学家,并宣布了一个堪称人类历史上伟大里程碑的项目。两个互相竞争的项目(其中一个由美国国立卫生研究院领导,另一个由私人公司推动)完成了人类基因组图谱的第一版草图。...
The Gene pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024