作者 卡尔·齐默(Carl Zimmer),知名科普作家,在耶鲁大学教授科学和环境写作。他写过多本广受欢迎的科普作品,包括《演化》《在水的边缘》《万物身刻》等,曾于2007年摘得美国国家科学院科学传播奖(The National Academies Communication Award),这一奖项是该领域的桂冠荣誉。
译者 刘旸(桔子),毕业于北京大学,后于芝加哥大学取得分子、遗传及细胞生物学博士学位,九三学社成员,科学写作者、记者,科学松鼠会成员,果壳网吱扭App主编。与他人合著出版《当彩色的声音尝起来是甜的》《一百种尾巴或一千张叶子》《冷浪漫》等作品,另有译作《共情时代》《永生的海拉》等。
Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, and yet they hold the entire planet in their sway. We're most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or the flu, but viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one disorder that makes people sprout branch-like growths as if they were trees. Viruses have been a part of our lives for so long, in fact, that we are actually part virus: the human genome contains more DNA from viruses than our own genes. Meanwhile, scientists are discovering viruses everywhere they look: in the soil, in the ocean, even in deep caves miles underground. This fascinating book explores the hidden world of viruses-a world that each of us inhabit. Here Carl Zimmer, popular science writer and author of Discover magazine's award-winning blog The Loom, presents the latest research on how viruses hold sway over our lives and our biosphere, how viruses helped give rise to the first life-forms, how viruses are producing new diseases, how we can harness viruses for our own ends, and how viruses will continue to control our fate for years to come. In this eye-opening tour through the frontiers of biology, where scientists are expanding our understanding of life as we know it, we learn that some treatments for the common cold do more harm to us than good; that the world's oceans are home to an astonishing 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 viruses; and that the evolution of HIV is now in overdrive, spawning more mutated strains than we care to imagine. The New York Times Book Review calls Carl Zimmer as fine a science essayist as we have.A" A Planet of Viruses is sure to please his many fans and further enhance his reputation as one of America's most respected and admired science journalists.
一、病毒(Virus)名词的起源: “病毒”这个词是自相矛盾的,承自罗马帝国,当时的意思是蛇的毒液或者人的精液。它原本就包含了两面性,一面是能给予生命的物质,另一面则代表致命的毒液。病毒在某种意义上的确是致命的,但它们也赋予了这个世界必不可少的创造力。创造和毁灭...
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评分病毒星球 卡尔·齐默 18个笔记 老朋友 所有人鼻病毒的核心遗传信息都一样,这些核心信息随时间变化并不多,但同时,鼻病毒基因组中有些部分却演化得非常快。这些基因序列似乎能帮助病毒躲过我们免疫系统的截杀。哪怕人体制造出能抵抗一种病毒株的抗体,另一些病毒株也能攻入人...
评分一、病毒(Virus)名词的起源: “病毒”这个词是自相矛盾的,承自罗马帝国,当时的意思是蛇的毒液或者人的精液。它原本就包含了两面性,一面是能给予生命的物质,另一面则代表致命的毒液。病毒在某种意义上的确是致命的,但它们也赋予了这个世界必不可少的创造力。创造和毁灭...
评分一、病毒(Virus)名词的起源: “病毒”这个词是自相矛盾的,承自罗马帝国,当时的意思是蛇的毒液或者人的精液。它原本就包含了两面性,一面是能给予生命的物质,另一面则代表致命的毒液。病毒在某种意义上的确是致命的,但它们也赋予了这个世界必不可少的创造力。创造和毁灭...
小科普
评分科普。深入浅出。看的很开心。并且发现了自己的无知。比如本来不知道抗生素是什么,攻击的是病毒还是细菌。感冒和流感区别。看完了对病毒的认知完全不一样了,敬畏生命及非生命。
评分很好的科普。总的来说,我们人类对病毒实在知之太少,而每一次病毒在人群中的爆发,几乎都是因为人类的无知和侵略性,这次也是一样。希望这次的病毒高抬贵手,来扫荡一圈就走吧。
评分好看的入门科普。想看更新的研究……
评分The history of Viruses prepared us for the future to live with them.Read in Blinkist.
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