理查德·道金斯,英国牛津大学教授。曾获英国皇家学会写作奖和《洛杉矶时报》科技图书奖。主要作品有《自私的基因》和《盲人钟表匠》等。
The river of Dawkins's title is a river of DNA, flowing through time from the beginning of life on earth to the present - and onwards. Dawkins explains that DNA must be thought of as the most sophisticated information system imaginable: 'Life is just bytes and bytes of information,' he writes. Using this perspective, he describes the mechanisms by which evolution has taken place, gradually but inexorably, over a period of three thousand million years. It is the story of how evolution happens, rather than a narrative of what has actually happened in evolution. He discusses current views on the process of human evolution, including the idea that we all trace back to a comparatively recent African 'Eve', and speculates that the 'information explosion' that was unleashed on Earth when DNA came into being has almost certainly happened in other places in the universe.
整本书还是很吸引人的,展示了不少生物案列,用以描述大自然的无情。个人认为第四章写的最精彩。提到的姬蜂幼虫在活体毛虫体内取食的例子,让人印象深刻。第96页描述的森林中植物为了争夺阳光长到荒谬而浪费的高度。以及福特公司的案例都具有现实的借鉴意义。在社会竞争环境下...
评分以下内容摘自本书籍 在《自私的基因》一书中,道金斯引入“生存机器”一词,用以讲述(终有一死)的生物个体与(可能永生不朽的)基因之间的角色与关系。他提出,“在更替的过程中,基因不会被毁灭,它们会不断向前进,变化的只不过是身边的同伴,基因是复制因子,而我们是它们...
评分 评分“本書標題所說的河,指的是一條DNA之河,它是在時間中流淌,而不是在空間流淌。它是一條資訊之河,而不是骨肉之河。在這條河中流淌的,是用於建造軀體的抽象指令,而不是實在的軀體本身。“摘自內文 先前在看過道金斯的成名之作『自私的基因』,深深地為其理論折服,也...
评分自然中不乏残忍,想想有一些毛虫将从内部活活被体内泥蜂的幼虫所吞噬,而无法动弹,想想瞪羚在被追捕至死亡时承受着可怕的痛苦和恐怖。自然有一点仁慈之心,它至少会做出使毛虫被从内部活活吃掉之前先行麻醉这样一个小小的让步,或是给与瞪羚一种基因,使它们在遭到致命...
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