具体描述
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.
作者简介
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.
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首先要说，我没能把中文版看完，当时是看到ent居然翻译了本书....出于对他平常写的文章的好感马上买来看了，可是翻译的并不好，所以转回英文版，这才享受到极致体验。 作者是英国人，我们九零年前后生的人可能都比较习惯美式英语，这是一个读原文的障碍。作者使用的英语可以说...
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用户评价
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Fascinating book. One of the best on evolution
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.
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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