Nick Lane is a biochemist and honorary reader at University College London, where he lives. His book Power, Sex, Suicide was named an Economist Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Aventis Science Book Prize.
How did life invent itself? Where did DNA come from? How did consciousness develop? Powerful new research methods are providing vivid insights into the makeup of life. Comparing gene sequences, examining atomic structures of proteins, and looking into the geochemistry of rocks have helped explain evolution in more detail than ever before. Nick Lane expertly reconstructs the history of life by describing the ten greatest inventions of evolution (including DNA, photosynthesis, sex, and sight), based on their historical impact, role in organisms today, and relevance to current controversies. Who would have guessed that eyes started off as light-sensitive spots used to calibrate photosynthesis in algae? Or that DNA’s building blocks form spontaneously in hydrothermal vents? Lane gives a gripping, lucid account of nature’s ingenuity, and the result is a work of essential reading for anyone who has ever pondered or questioned the science underlying evolution’s greatest gifts to man.
作者是一个演化论的坚持者,这从书的副标题里就能看的出来。作者认为生命是一个演化的过程,而在这个过程中,作者选择了10个话题进行讨论。 几乎每一个话题,都能看到作者思辨的过程,这个“发明”的益处是什么?“代价”又是什么?在漫长的演化历史中,这个发明是如何被自然选...
评分BB:看书名好像不知道说什么。 AA:可以看副标题啊。 BB:也可以。如果把书名改成生命的进化或生命的演化,可能就没什么新意了。所以用了一个高级一点的词汇。 AA:正是英语老师教过的。 BB:不过并没有什么帮助。本书2009年出版,当然是说英文版,中文版要到2016年。讲演化的...
评分毫无疑问这是本好书,从生命起源到意识问题,每一章都是生命形成和演化过程中最为关键的一个成就。虽然是科普书籍,作者却写得很生动,一点不枯燥,甚至不乏幽默。 个人觉得最好的章节还是事实证据等相对清晰的部分,比如生命起源,叶绿体,热血,肌肉等,作者不但给出了许多的...
评分(写在最初的最初:作者本人是个演化学家,从书的标题也可以看出,整本书是从演化的角度来阐述问题的,所以这些书中还没有实锤的一些理论是否一定是最合理的解释是很难确认的,因为作者一定会从演化理论的角度去找一个最make sense的理论出来,我们在看的过程中,除了被科普的...
豁然开朗
评分Astonishing. 生命的珍贵和伟大
评分关于性的那章,解除了我一直以来的疑惑。如果只靠变异,一个基因要消亡必须是所有个体的消亡,并且没有后代,非常残酷。如果是这样,我们有这么多共性,必然是共祖的,那也不太像。正解应该是性,可以融合基因,同时逐渐把坏基因淡出,这样就比较温和。
评分深刻优美
评分跋的最后一段,读来仿佛读到物种起源结尾时的感受,摘录于此:It is a most wonderful thing to share so much with the life around us on this blue-green marble,floating through the bleak infinity of space.There is more than grandeur in this view of life.There is fallibility and majesty,and the best human eagerness to know.
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