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.
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.
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...
评分本书介绍的是,生命发展过程中10大关键性进展,当然因为真实的过程目前没有技术能力完全重现,所以免不了有推理和猜测的成分,但是比某些历史学家好一些的是,本书会提取出自己有推测和偏好的地方,让读者有个正确的认识。 生命的诞生和演化是耗费的海量时间、物质和能量的过程...
评分刚看到第四章,实在被作者的科学素养和文学功底所折服,忍不住感叹。在读的过程中,情节跌宕起伏的让人对这本书的科普定位有所怀疑,每每当我觉得此事已然遵循着严密的逻辑,且在强有力的实验证据支撑下可以成为真理时,作者往往能找到一个很好的切入点让我打破原来认定的事情...
评分死亡是不朽的代价。生命最后面对的都是衰老和死亡,对DNA的研究逐步解开衰老之谜。科学家发现低自由基等于长寿,即限制热量会带来长寿。 热量限制让基因把注意力转到个体维护。如果中年开始限制热量,等于把身体重置到青年的状态。限制热量的方法是“轻断食”,即有规律的禁食...
评分生命的跃升没有使用当今什么“的崛起”这样的恶俗的名字。却写了40亿年演化史上的十大发明,莱恩用轻松而有深度的笔法,探讨了性、运动、视觉、热血、意识、死亡,从低级的生命起源,到灵长类之王——人类是怎么回事,都一一做了诠释。 看完后不禁掩卷而思,如果没有这些热血、...
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评分Astonishing. 生命的珍贵和伟大
评分Fascinating book. One of the best on evolution
评分深刻优美
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。
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