The Greatest Show on Earth

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Richard Dawkins is a world-renowned evolutionary biologist and author. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and,until recently, held the Charles Simonyi Chair of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. His first book, The Selfish Gene, was an instant international bestseller, and has become an established classic work of modern evolutionary biology. He is also the author of The Blind Watchmaker, River Out of Eden, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, A Devil's Chaplain, The Ancestor's Tale, and most recently, The God Delusion.

出版者:Free Press
作者:Richard Dawkins
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頁數:480
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出版時間:2009
價格:USD 30.00
裝幀:Hardcover
isbn號碼:9781416594789
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  • 科普 
  • 進化論 
  • 生物 
  • RichardDawkins 
  • evolution 
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  • science 
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In 2008, a Gallup poll showed that 44 percent of Americans believed God had created man in his present form within the last 10,000 years. In a Pew Forum poll in the same year, 42 percent believed that all life on earth has existed in its present form since the beginning of time. In 1859 Charles Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species , shook society to its core. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke. But he surely would have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later. Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed theologians, yet millions of people continue to question its veracity. Now the author of the iconic work The God Delusion takes them to task. The Greatest Show on Earth is a stunning counterattack on advocates of "Intelligent Design," explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist "argument." Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence: from living examples of natural selection to clues in the fossil record; from natural clocks that mark the vast epochs wherein evolution ran its course to the intricacies of developing embryos; from plate tectonics to molecular genetics. Combining these elements and many more, he makes the airtight case that "we find ourselves perched on one tiny twig in the midst of a blossoming and flourishing tree of life and it is no accident, but the direct consequence of evolution by non-random selection." The Greatest Show on Earth comes at a critical time: systematic opposition to the fact of evolution is menacing as never before. In American schools, and in schools around the world, insidious attempts are made to undermine the status of science in the classroom. Dawkins wields a devastating argument against this ignorance, but his unjaded passion for the natural world turns what might have been a negative argument into a positive offering to the reader: nothing less than a master's vision of life, in all its splendor.

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这本书完全是当作一本科普书而读的,作者围绕进化是一个无可回避的事实而进行探讨。 它分以下几个目录: 第一章 只是一个理论?   第二章 狗,牛和白菜   第三章 报春花的宏进化之路   第四章 安静与缓慢的时间   第五章 就发生在我们眼前   第六章 缺失的环...

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地球上唯一的娱乐,地球上最伟大的表演。BBC专门以“地球上最伟大的表演”为名,邀请全球顶级科学家、哲学家录制交响曲,制作纪录片全球发布(霍金、道金斯也在邀请之列),“地球上最伟大的表演”继“自私的基因”之后又将成为固定词组。 没有想到这本书的书名也有故事。道金...  

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作为一项历史事实的进化——评道金斯《地球上最伟大的表演》 辉格 2013年5月5日 作为现代进化理论和新达尔文主义最著名的通俗阐释者和辩护者,道金斯多年来致力于向公众解释进化论;和他过去出版的多部通俗作品一样,这仍是一本为进化论辩护的书,不同的是,之前的作品更像是...  

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作为一项历史事实的进化——评道金斯《地球上最伟大的表演》 辉格 2013年5月5日 作为现代进化理论和新达尔文主义最著名的通俗阐释者和辩护者,道金斯多年来致力于向公众解释进化论;和他过去出版的多部通俗作品一样,这仍是一本为进化论辩护的书,不同的是,之前的作品更像是...  

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比《blind watchmaker》淺顯,但是加入瞭新的科學發現。看來道金斯的讀者群正在嚮低學曆延伸啊。

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宣傳無神論,為演化論提供evidence之作

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Dawkins 的東西質量還是有保證。看過瞭他的God Delusion,覺得講得很透,邏輯嚴密。結果再看這本還是有收獲。

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言之有物,深入透徹,蕩氣迴腸,強烈推薦!

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In the arms of the angel Fly away from here

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