圖書標籤: 科普 生物 進化 進化論 英文原版 神經科學 evolution 演化
发表于2024-07-12
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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.
Fascinating book. One of the best on evolution
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評分“How did such a thing come to be?”
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評分跋的最後一段,讀來仿佛讀到物種起源結尾時的感受,摘錄於此: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.
做编辑多年,一直觉得内地的图书出版有个让人尴尬的现象:人文类书籍出版太多,科普类则出版太少。 想想原因,其实不难理解:一是不好读,相较于人文类图书的软糯适口,科普书籍多是以硬货为主,一旦专业知识涉及较深,普通读者必然消化不了;二是不好写,科普写作的门槛较高,...
評分刚看到第四章,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...
評分本书介绍的是,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...
評分這是本論述生命演化與生物化學領域的書籍,作者敘述演化科學的各類觀點與推論,雖說不見得全是經由實證的真理,但他捏拿得極為精準,不僅敘述內容完整且盡可能令人信服,也遵守了科學家尋找的是適用一切的 "通則" ,而非 "例外" 的原則!。這是我近年來耗費最長時間才讀完的書...
評分做编辑多年,一直觉得内地的图书出版有个让人尴尬的现象:人文类书籍出版太多,科普类则出版太少。 想想原因,其实不难理解:一是不好读,相较于人文类图书的软糯适口,科普书籍多是以硬货为主,一旦专业知识涉及较深,普通读者必然消化不了;二是不好写,科普写作的门槛较高,...
Life Ascending pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024