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.
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 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、...
评分Nick Lane是那种胆大有见地的科学家,不光自己研究做得好,各派观点融会贯通。干货多,包袱抖得勤,哲学艺术功底深,文笔也好。十分推荐一读。
评分“How did such a thing come to be?”
评分还行,有点啰嗦
评分Astonishing. 生命的珍贵和伟大
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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